Chapter 39-1: Chemical Reactions

[Osiris]

http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0001044/

that is all.

She was so fracking hot in Boulevard with Kari Wuhrer.

[Kc]

My guess is you'll be hearing from our lawyers soon.

Radon Labs, Inc
"We're a gas!"

They went belly up in 2010. We're good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon_Labs

[Storm]

Michael was acting a lot like Saul when he was on his Lizzy-quest.

That's because Michael and Randy were secret lovers before the outbreak. When they met Again at the Waterworks, and Randy was turning (which he of course did slowly - that's why he's so intelligent) he hugged Michael a bit too tight when they said their last farewell to each other, breaking Michael's arm.
This explains why Michael just tells everyone that he got his arm crushed in a door. He's afraid of getting out of the closet.
And here's another thing that backs up this theory of mine: Raydon Labs is an anagram. Two letters are missing though, but you can still spell "O, Randy Bals"

[UndeadSweeper]

I think Storm is try to cover up for Rayden. They seem to be working together.

[Grognaurd]

Not Sid,

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I really couldn't think of many tests with those numbers that could be done quickly at the bedside. Glucose can be done quickly, and you could see those sorts of numbers in somebody headed into a diabetic crisis, but that doesn't really make any sense in this situation.

They have some new blood tests that can detect a heart attack is less than an hour. Some of the new Biodefense sensors can detect Anthrax and small pox in less than two minutes.

What Tanya did was wicked fast. My guess is she was pushing the test as fast as she possibly could just to see what would happen and then she can repeat the test more accurately. She could easily draw a few milliliters of blood and the blood test might only consume 0.1ml of the sample to run the assay. If she got a "hit" she could run the test more accurately with longer incubation times and better washing steps.

[Kc]

They have some new blood tests that can detect a heart attack is less than an hour. Some of the new Biodefense sensors can detect Anthrax and small pox in less than two minutes.

What Tanya did was wicked fast. My guess is she was pushing the test as fast as she possibly could just to see what would happen and then she can repeat the test more accurately. She could easily draw a few milliliters of blood and the blood test might only consume 0.1ml of the sample to run the assay. If she got a "hit" she could run the test more accurately with longer incubation times and better washing steps.

The speed of any test might be fudged a bit for story purposes. It would be very dull to be like, ok. Let's sit here and wait like 3 hours. NOT TO SAY THE TEST IN QUESTION WOULD TAKE THAT LONG, but you get the point.

[nikvoodoo]

Can't believe no one made this connection yet!!! Jay is totally boinking Pegs. After all, he got stuck in a flower bed!

Too tin foily?

Loved it! I kept waiting to hear who was this chick who got herself bit expecting Riley, or Pegs...maybe Kelly.... Nope. No one we really even knew. At least she got Dr. Kevorkian all jazzed up about something.

[EpiEpee]

They have some new blood tests that can detect a heart attack is less than an hour. Some of the new Biodefense sensors can detect Anthrax and small pox in less than two minutes.

What Tanya did was wicked fast. My guess is she was pushing the test as fast as she possibly could just to see what would happen and then she can repeat the test more accurately. She could easily draw a few milliliters of blood and the blood test might only consume 0.1ml of the sample to run the assay. If she got a "hit" she could run the test more accurately with longer incubation times and better washing steps.

Sure, I didn't mean to totally exclude all infectious causes. There's any number of new tests out there, but guessing at what Tanya was likely to have easy access to in a presumably still resource strapped hospital/clinic, I wasn't coming up with any immediate likely candidates. And you basically described something along the same lines as what is commonly done with HIV testing-there's a quick and dirty, but high sensitivity test done, and then if that's positive there's a more specific test done. Not trying to lecture, I don't know what your background is. I had not heard of the anthrax and smallpox rapid tests before, so that is interesting news. I could be wrong (again) but I think most tests of that nature really just yield a positive or negative, not an exact number....?

Again, I don't have any really solid guesses as to what exactly she was testing, I was just trying to throw some more info out there. And I'm happy to allow for poetic license-didn't mean to imply that I wanted to be waiting for cultures to grow either. :-)

[dontkillburt]

Kc...

But exactly when 2010?

Chapter 39 - Part 1 of 3...6:13 into the podcast, Michael provides a journal entry...

Michael: "March 1st, 2010, our first big break..."

Wtf?

[Osiris]

Kc...

But exactly when 2010?

Chapter 39 - Part 1 of 3...6:13 into the podcast, Michael provides a journal entry...

Michael: "March 1st, 2010, our first big break..."

Wtf?

Wait. What? I think he's on to something. Didn't we already have Christmas?