The Victorian Labor Government has promised that the state will support locally manufactured rapid antigen tests (RATs) for secure supply in the midst of the Labor Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese’s campaign for free RATs manufactured in Australia. The Labor government released a statement on Feb. 2 stating that the government will support a manufacturing facility and innovation hub in Victoria if the TGA approves. The state will be partnering with Lumos Diagnostics which is already making RATs, trading under the name CoviDx for Canadian and European markets. On the company’s website, the test is claimed to have a sensitivity and specificity when compared to the PCR test, to be 93.75 percent (pdf). This number is likely calculated by dividing the sensitivity of CoviDx by the sensitivity of the PCR test which falls between 99.1 to 99.8 percent, therefore multiplying the two numbers together, the sensitivity of Lumos Diagnostic’s test falls …