How Accurate Are COVID-19 Tests And When Will We Have A Vaccine? | The 11th Hour | MSNBC

Were told that testing is the key to everything, but let’s talk about that. What’S the false positive or negative rate in the testing as of right now and when you go for the antibody testing same question, so lots that are Brian, let me try to parse it out with when it comes to the swab test. It’S the test. It’S a PCR test, it says, can. Is there active infection? Can eutectic ovid 19 virus in your nose, for example, in her saliva we are worried. Now I was, I was just actually in the hospital last night in the ice you want to shift and I had a patient that we tested that was negative and then positive and then negative and then positive and – and this is with the nasal test, and so There are concerns the Abid ID now tested that President Trump trumpeted with such fanfare about a month ago as our panacea of protesting. We’re worried now that maybe the sensitivity of that test, the false negative rate of that test, so that it gives a negative result. But you actually have the infection, we think, maybe now it’s around 80 percent. So there are challenges here, because testing is tough. Testing development is tough. The antibody tests lots of problems even more problems than the whether or not you had the actual infection with a swab. The antibody test has tons of problems. We think it’s giving false positive, so you have the positive test, but you actually don’t have an antibody, that’s a false positive. That is the main challenge with a lot of the tests that are online right now. The studies at Stanford and other scientists have produced that have had these high prevalence rates of covered 19 infections, because people have these antibodies. We’re worried that those tests are fundamentally flawed. So, there’s a lot of quality issues that we’re trying to iterate on now. I was reminded this week: mumps took four years. How high are your hopes that, by Christmas time, or New Year’s we’re gon na be talking about hundreds of millions of doses, Brian I’m hopeful, doctor pouch is right. I bet a

Pouchy is hopeful that he’s right, we’re all hopeful. Having said that, it took 30 years to develop the vaccine they’re a seller that protects us against chickenpox, there’s a lot vaccine development is complicated. Theres a lot of phases as you mentioned earlier, so I don’t think we can build a strategy now thinking we’re gon na have a magic bullet in the future. In six months we have to focus on the hair and the now there’s a therapeutic like from disappear. Theres a vaccine that doctor pouch is referencing fantastic, but that cannot impact our short-term thinking, which is social distancing. Even if we start opening things up, some governor’s our masks. We need to think about a proactive top of mine infection control at the top of mind, even as we normalize things hey there, I’m Chris Hayes from MSNBC thanks for watching MSNBC on YouTube. If you want to keep up to date with the videos we’re putting out, you, can click subscribe just below me or click over on this list to see lots of other great videos?