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They want to give UNC so much love. How about we admit that they play in a crap conference and any average team will be overrated. I would not be scared in the least to play them. They were not impressive at all against a terrible Syracuse team.
Syracuse was really bad.
 
We've had good luck at my hospital with cepheid. We were one of their initial rollout sites, as we're just a few miles away. All of the true PCR-based tests should be in the same ballpark in terms of degree of accuracy - Cepheid requires at least 250 viral particles per mL for detection, which is quite sensitive compared to the other PCR-based tests (most are in the 500-2000 copies range of sensitivity). Turnaround in real life has been on the order of 90 minutes in our ED. It also has the advantage of using two different viral targets for PCR, which should help with sensitivity. The reason that you don't see these being rolled out with football teams, etc is the need for CLIA certification. In essence, it's a real deal lab test, and requires a lab and personnel that are CLIA certified (i.e, they can demonstrate to regulatory agencies that they know what they are doing, can validate their results and keep appropriate records). The cost of the machine isn't prohibitive, but the cost of the underpinnings for being able to actually use it in an independent setting may well be.

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