Back to School: Are our teachers safe from COVID?
After a long hot summer COVID has not been at the forefront of people's minds but it certainly hasn't gone away. As we know from the latest vaccine rollout plans, new Omicron variants have been circulating extensively in the population. It is widely accepted that...
What is Smart Boosting?
Antibody levels and antibody immunity vary widely in the population, and we are about to boost people based on age alone. Before COVID, antibody levels were found to correlate with protection in 18 other vaccines [1] and antibody levels following the third boost are...
UK leads the vaccine race again – but are we making the right choices?
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced on August 22nd the widely trailed information that a 4th vaccination shot for COVID-19 would be rolled out to all over 50s from early September. The great majority of these shots will be the Moderna bivalent Omicron...
Case Study: Integra Healthcare in the Cayman Islands
Attomarker has partnered with Integra Healthcare in the Cayman Islands, where only 31% of the population has received a boosterdose. The medical team introduced the test to the community with a VIP launch and an informative...
Attomarker Technology Overview
Attomarker technology is a label-free particle plasmon resonance multiplexed array that can measure the concentration quantitatively for up to 20 species in 10 µL blood sample in 7 minutes. The original idea came from a...
COVID-19 Antibody Immunity Test
The Attomarker Antibody Immunity Test measures antibodies in the blood to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causing COVID-19. The total IgG response is measured to three antigens on the surface of the virus: Nucleocapsid (N),...
Were White House COVID victims lulled into false sense of security by current antigen tests?
Last week’s announcement that the most powerful man in the world had contracted COVID-19 calls into question the effectiveness of the White House testing regime.Screening with a test upon entry to the Rose Garden ‘super-spreader’ event on Sep 26th was clearly used as...
Hunting down the virus in the community will help resolve lab-based logjams and avoid lockdowns
The UK’s COVID-19 testing capacity has grown enormously over the past few months, but recent demand has grown even faster. The news is full of complaints about distant appointment offers and delays in getting results, so much so that the DHSC is now being forced to...
Is Attomarker’s Triple Antibody Test for COVID-19 now the best by far?
A recent Guardian article from Birmingham University biostatistics Professor John Deeks -https://bit.ly/34X9e9r - warned against cutting scientific corners in the pursuit of the ultimate COVID-19 antibody test. It had become apparent that the ‘98% sensitivity’...
