Thread by @phylogenomics

Today am still feeling a bit off. Very tired, a bit achy. Slight cough (which may or may not be related to the flu shot & did not have yesterday).

I could have lied about such things, but did not, & today failed @ucdavis Daily Symptom Checker and am not allowed on campus.

If only there was some way to rapidly do a test at home for #COVID19 to just double check things. Any thoughts? Maybe @michaelmina_lab can help me.

I know I know a bit of a a set up there as I don't need @michaelmina_lab to actually respond since I have been reading his (and many others) Tweets about rapid testing for months. And I got a few #BinaxNow kits just in case they could be useful at some point for me or family.

So let’s do this.

Got my #BinaxNow kit. Got a mug of coffee (thank you coffee fairy) in my Presidential mug (from when @barackobama was POTUS and I went to the WhiteHouse for a meeting run by @jo44atWID).

Opened up the #binaxnow #covid19 test kit

And, reading the instructions

Opened up and removed and set up one test card - and confirmed the blue line is there

Got out the weird little dropper bottle thingy

Now going to open it and add 6 drops in the top hole

Ok added the drops

Now to the fun part - self swabbing my nostrils - reading instructions

And did the nasal swabbing - easy peasy

Put the swab into the bottom hole and up to the top one and rotated it as instructed

Sealed the card

Timer started - note Twitter was slow - started a few minutes ago

Now down to 645

345

150

30 seconds

And — looks like we are negative - looked for a faint line too and did not see one

And there was much rejoicing