8/18/2022

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Operator

Good day and welcome to the LumiraDX second quarter 2022 earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. As a reminder, this call may be recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Colleen McMillan, VP Communications. You may begin.

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Colleen McMillan

Hello, everyone. We'd like to welcome you to today's call to discuss LumiraDX's second quarter 2022 financial results. issued earlier today. With us are Lumiere DX's Chairman and CEO, Ron Zwanziger, Chief Financial Officer, Dorian LeBlanc, and Chief Product Officer, Pusha Patak. The press release announcing our financial results is posted on the Investor Relations section of the company's website at lumieredx.com. Before we begin, I would like to caution listeners that any statements we make today, other than historical facts, are forward-looking statements made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Please be aware that all such forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, such as those detailed in our annual report on Form 20F for the year ended December 31st, 2021, which was filed with the SEC on April 13th, 2022, and other filings that we make with the SEC Any forward-looking statements that we make must be considered in light of these factors. Actual results may vary materially. Also, during the course of today's call, we may refer to certain non-IFRS financial measures. Non-IFRS financial measures should not be considered in isolation from or as a substitute for financial information presented in compliance with IFRS. There is a reconciliation schedule showing the IFRS versus non-IFRS results currently available in our press release issued earlier today, which can be found on our website. I will now turn the call over to Ron Zwanziger for opening remarks. We will then provide financial and business updates before answering questions.

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Ron Zwanziger

Ron? Thanks, Colleen. We continue to deliver on our mission and promise to transform community-based care. Looking ahead as part of the transformation, the company has four key priorities in the next 12 to 18 months, and I'd like to provide updates on each of these areas. Our first priority is to commercialize our newly authorized CE product portfolio in Europe and other international markets. The second, we're progressing our U.S. revenue pipeline and 5TK plan. The third, we're accelerating development of our highly sensitivity troponin and molecular assays onto the platform. And fourth, we're shaping our organization and cost base to support strong innovation and commercial success. We've made tremendous progress on our first priority to deliver on our pipeline plan and commercialize new products in Europe. On the point of care platform, we achieved five new CE marks including hemoglobin A1C, anti-pro-VMP, pro-congestive heart failure, COVID ULTRA, a five-minute version of our COVID antigen test, the ULTRA pool test, as well as the RSV combo with COVID. Each of these tests deliver lab-comparable performance in minutes on the Lumira DX platform. We also expanded the use of CRP to the added populations and added an exclusion claim to our D-timer test. Our focus now is to commercialize these products in Europe and also to register in key international markets HPA1C COVID Ultra pool test as well as the COVID RSV Combo test are planned to launch commercially in Q3. NT-PRO BMP test will launch by the end of the year. We have compelling value proposition and are seeing early demand for these new products, which have been designed to enable our customers to consolidate three different instruments they are currently using into a single Lumira DX platform. and workflow right now, and with the opportunity to consolidate up to six instruments in the next 18 to 24 months. In the fast lab solutions, we achieved CE mark for two RNA star complete assays. The flu and COVID combination assay, as well as the dual target COVID assay, provide results in 20 minutes using open channel RT-PCR lab systems. We're seeing the demand for these assays, which combines speed, throughput, and performance for molecular. Shifting to the United States, our second priority is to progress our U.S. revenue and pipeline. We continue to solidify the unique performance and positioning of our high-sensitivity antigen test on the platform. In the last year, several of our large customers have expanded the use of our platform to new locations originally designated for point-of-care molecular testing or central lab molecular testing, with a number of others now making a similar change. This is based on our data showing molecular-like performance with substantial cost savings and reflects the power inherent in the performance of our platform. We plan to submit a new UA for the COVID antigen ultra test on the platform shortly and are actively working on 510K submission. COVID ultra followed by flu, AB ultra, RSV ultra, and strep A molecular are planned to go through clinical studies during the upcoming respiratory seasons. This respiratory portfolio combines molecular-like performance with speed at point of care. With hemoglobin A1C product being commercialized in Europe, we plan to initiate U.S. clinical studies later this year and also for INR. This core product offering will enable us to consolidate much of the current point of care primary care offerings in the U.S. onto a single platform. Our third priority is to accelerate the development of our troponin and molecular assays on the platform. During our recent Analyst Day, we were able to share the results from a method comparison study demonstrating that our high sensitivity troponin assay test correlates very well with the market leading high sensitivity central lab assay. We currently are reviewing our global clinical study plan with key opinion leaders, after which we will be in a position to initiate prospective studies. Our molecular pipeline continues to progress well with two leading programs planned to complete development this year. Both Strep A and TB programs leverage our QSTAR technology, validating the performance and speed that can be achieved with a proprietary chemistry. Our Strep A and TB product design is being finalized, and our plan is to start clinical studies late this year or early next year. We recently received an additional investment from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which included funding from a commercialization of a number of our tests, including TB. We have four to five additional projects in various stages of research and development. All this leads to our fourth priority, building the company's overall financial position. We have an exciting set of product launches in the near term that will start to generate revenue later this year and expect rapid acceleration next year. At the same time as COVID moves from pandemic to the endemic stage, we have a lower but also more stable revenue place to plan with. To allow for sufficient runways to achieve pivotal milestones, we completed 100 million-plus million in financing last month and initiated a restructuring program focused on three main areas. The reduction of manufacturing as a direct consequence of lower COVID demand, deprioritizing of a few R&D programs, and a few early-stage assets. And finally, reorganization of our R&D delivery organizations. We're confident these actions will bridge us towards a key revenue milestones while delivering on our mission for improved health outcomes at lower costs through fast, accurate, and comprehensive diagnostic information at the point of need. I'll now hand things over to Dorian to go deeper into our financial performance. Dorian?

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Ron

Thanks, Ron. Good morning, everyone. I'm pleased to summarize LumiraDx's Q2 2022 financial results. Starting with a summary of our P&L for Q2 2022, total product revenues for the quarter were $45 million. Revenues included $28 million of test strip sales on our point-of-care platform and $10 million from our FAST Labs molecular reagents, both of which were substantially all from COVID-19 products. Our gross margin for the quarter was 11% compared to 17% a year ago. primarily due to underabsorbed manufacturing capacity costs as we transition from a higher cost base and resize our operations to deliver in a more stable post-pandemic market environment. In addition, we incurred inventory reserves of $8 million in the quarter related to the decline in COVID demand. Our non-IFRS R&D expenses increased 33% in the second quarter compared to the same period in 2021. primarily due to activities to accelerate the European CE marking of several new products within the quarter and the final development work on our Amira platform. As we progress through 2022, we have taken measures to reduce our R&D spend while focusing on the key priorities Ron discussed at the start of the call. Our non-IFRS SG&A expenses increased 37% in the second quarter compared to the same period in 2021, primarily due to investments in our commercial infrastructure support the rapidly expanding customer base during the COVID scale-up and costs incurred as a publicly traded company. Non-IFRS SG&A expenses declined approximately $3 million from Q1 2022, and we anticipate further reductions as part of our restructuring program. The non-IFRS operating loss for Q2 2022 was $71 million, representing a $29 million higher loss compared to Q2 2021. primarily a result of generating lower COVID-related revenue while still maintaining the infrastructure required for the periods of peak COVID demand. We raised $41.5 million in a private placement offering of interest in a royalty agreement with select investors in the quarter as described in our 6K filings related to that transaction. Recently, we completed an underwritten public offering and a concurrent private placement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that raised aggregate net proceeds after underwriting costs of approximately $100 million. We initially issued 43 million shares in the secondary offering and 14.3 million shares in the private placement. Subsequently, the underwriters partially exercised the over-allotment option granted to them in the underwriting agreement and purchased an additional 3.8 million common shares. At the end of the quarter, we had cash and cash equivalents of $106 million compared to $132 million at the end of 2021. The pro forma cash balance after the recent public offering and private placement would have been approximately $206 million. Over the previous six quarters, we have invested more than $120 million in capital equipment and facilities. These investments have created sufficient manufacturing capacity with minimal additional investment required to install and validate new equipment to allow us to meet our internal revenue projections beyond 2025. In addition, we exit Q2 2022 with a strong inventory position. We anticipate cash utilization to decelerate in the second half of 2022 as our capital investments have been completed and our inventory purchases are substantially reduced. As Ron mentioned in his opening remarks, one of our key priorities is ensuring our cash position remains strong after our recent financing activities. In response to lower COVID testing activity and to ensure efficient use of our cash, we initiated a global restructuring plan to resize the organization to the current requirements to meet market needs and to reduce our overall cost basis. We are targeting our cost reductions to avoid impacting our pipeline delivery over the next 18 months. First, we'll reduce our overall manufacturing related operational activities to reflect both the decreases in COVID related demand and the operational efficiencies we have realized over the last 24 months since the initial launch of our COVID testing products. In addition, with the CE mark achieved in our AMIRA platform, we anticipate reduced R&D spending in the near term for that program, and we are evaluating our commercial opportunities for AMIRA before committing additional capital to a full launch. We will deprioritize certain early-stage R&D activities without impacting the 2022-2023 pipeline assays. We are also reorganizing our R&D teams and several of our other teams and support functions to drive efficiency on our focus areas. We have immediately identified reductions of $16 million in direct operating costs per quarter, including a significant headcount reduction of more than 300 roles or approximately 20% of our total full-time headcount. As a significant portion of our operations are located in the United Kingdom, We are currently going through the collective consultation process with employees. Therefore, we expect only a minimum reduction in operating costs from the restructuring activities in Q3, but we anticipate realizing substantially the full benefit in Q4 2022. Given these cost reductions coupled with the reduced capital expenditures and inventory purchases, We believe our current cash balance is sufficient for approximately one year with very conservative revenue contributions from both COVID and new product launches. We will be vigilant in assessing our cash position and business performance to further adjust cash spending as required. With the R&D pipeline delivering a comprehensive set of new products, with our global commercial footprint, with our installed base of instruments with world-class customers, With our manufacturing investments capable of rapidly scaling production of our low-cost, high-performance microfluidic test strip, we are well positioned for rapid growth. We will continue to focus on growth, and we will look at additional capital sources, including non-dilutive financial arrangements, licensing of our technologies, and other strategic partnerships to fund our growth appropriately. We do anticipate further activities in these areas over the coming quarters. The customer experience with the Lumiere DX platform and our FastLab solutions continues to demonstrate the value of rapid, high-quality, low-cost diagnostic results. The expanding menu in Europe and the progress on key content such as high-sensitivity troponin and our point-of-care molecular tests provide exciting near-term catalysts as we focus on rapid growth to a $1 billion revenue enterprise. Given the pace of business activities and our current outlook on our R&D and regulatory timelines, we do anticipate reaching a run rate of $1 billion in annualized revenue now in 2025 versus our prior $1 billion revenue guidance for fiscal year 2024. In addition, we are focused on exiting 2023 with breakeven operating cash flows while continuing our significant investments in long-term growth. I will now hand over to Pooja to provide some product updates as the commercial activities continue to accelerate with our new products.

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Ron

Lucia? Thanks, Dorian. I would like to provide some further updates in our first priority area that Ron highlighted, which is to commercialize our CE portfolio, in particular HBA1C and NT-PRO BNP, as well as a global update on respiratory, including COVID-Ultra and flu RSV combo products. First, to start with HBA1C. We see substantial opportunity for this product, estimating a global total addressable market for point-of-care HbA1c with lab-comparable performance and cost to be approximately $1.3 billion, including an estimated 60% outside the U.S. As previously announced, we achieved CE mark for our HbA1c test both for monitoring diabetes and for screening patients potentially at risk for diabetes in May of this year. The test provides results in less than seven minutes from a finger stick sample. In a method comparison study, it demonstrated 97% correlation with a lab reference method. The HbA1c test market is highly standardized with all assays needing to be traceable to a global primary reference method. The IFCC established a global reference method and annually certifies traceability for all manufacturers. We are very pleased that in our first year of participation, the Lumiere DX HBA1C test achieved IFCC certification with less than 3% CVs in IFCC units and less than 2% CVs in NGSP units, lab-comparable quality performance. We have started to work with global key opinion leaders on early evaluations and planning a European commercial launch in September. We have also begun regulatory process in Japan, India, Brazil, and South Africa, which are large existing point care markets for HBA1C, but also have a diabetes burden that supports expanded testing. I do want to underscore that the ability for customers to consolidate three instruments down to a single instrument is an adoption driver. Second, we achieved the E mark for our NT ProBNP test in May of this year. The test is indicated to be an aid to diagnosis of heart failure from a finger stick sample with results in 12 minutes. For both D-dimer and NT ProBNP, due to the severity of symptoms and potential outcomes, patients will very often present in the emergency department, and these tests are typically ordered in the ED and run in the lab. With lab-comparable results in minutes from a finger stick sample, we see opportunity to do a lot more testing in the ED. We also believe there's an opportunity to shift the monitoring of these conditions to point-of-care testing in primary care and cardiology. Multiple studies have shown that point of care testing has the potential to reduce downstream utilization and cost of healthcare as well as improve outcomes. We're actively working with European KOLs that are passionate about this approach to implement point of care testing in community care settings. Finally, on the respiratory side, our COVID antigen test continues to be recognized by customers for its performance, speed, and usability. We had excellent engagement with customers and KOLs at AACP this year, including a customer presentation that outlined results from a 24-month study evaluating COVID detection rates across lab PCR, the Lumia IDX microfluidic antigen test, and lateral flow test. The Lumia IDX COVID test demonstrated comparable performance to lab PCR, while the lateral flow test had substantially lower detection rates. As announced, we CE-marked the COVID Ultra test in Q2, which provides high sensitivity results in five minutes. We plan to start shipping products in the next few weeks and are also submitting an EUA to FDA shortly. We also CE-marked flu and RSV combination products with COVID in Q2. Customers in Europe and Japan are conducting evaluations for the flu and COVID combo, and we're preparing for demand in the upcoming flu season. The RSV and COVID combo will start shipping next month. With that, we would be happy to take your questions. Operator?

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Operator

As a reminder, to ask a question, please press star 1-1. Our first question comes from Vijay Kumar with Evercore ISI. Your line is open.

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Vijay Kumar

Hey, guys, thanks for taking my question. One, maybe on the restructuring here, Dorian, with the headcount in a reduction, can you quantify what the OPEC spend rate should be? It looks like Q4 should be a more normalized level and what the cash burn rate implications are.

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Ron

Yeah, so there's two components to the cash burn rates, Vijay, as I mentioned. One, the reduction, we anticipate $16 million of operating costs, and that will come from the fixed costs within cost of sales. It'll come from R&D, and it will come from SG&A, so it'll come from all three of those lines in the P&L. So that's about $16 million of costs per quarter, and as I said, we expect to realize that within Q4. And probably if you're looking at the last six to 18 months, the larger impact will be from the lack of capital expenditures now that the manufacturing build is complete. And also, as we work down the working capital, we're exiting the quarter with $169 million in inventory left. Most of that is in instrument, instrument components and other things that will have the ability to place over a period of time and won't have the cash outflows associated with replenishing that at the same rate. So we anticipate the working capital and the capex to be even larger drivers of reduced cash outflows.

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Vijay Kumar

And did I hear you correctly, Dorian, on you expect 2023 to be cash flow neutral? We expect to exit 2023 at operating cash breakeven. Understood. And Ron, maybe a couple of questions for you. One, I think in your prepared remarks, you mentioned you expect non-COVID assets to ramp up and back half or exiting 22 and more meaningful ramp into 2023. Could you just remind us in what those assets are you know, with the restructuring, did any timelines get shifted here? I don't think so, but just wanted to check the box.

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Ron Zwanziger

No, they haven't. We've been, in regards to the platform, they haven't. We've been very careful that as part of this restructuring to make sure that the key tests which enable us to consolidate from a customer's perspective initially what they might what they may be using on three instruments down to one is not affected and also we haven't affected the the mate that the major tests that are due to launch in the in the next 18 months so as far as the platform is concerned there has been no we've been very careful not not to do that

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Vijay Kumar

And sorry, just on the revenue ramp expectations for non-COVID assets, can you just give us a little bit of flavor on what your customer feedback has been? Maybe Pooja can chime in as well. What kind of assets do you expect to see revenues ramp up significantly in 2023?

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Ron Zwanziger

Well, we haven't quantified it, Vijay, but customer feedback from every part of the world is about wanting additional tests on the platform. And it's the test that, of course, we have in development because the tests we have in development were essentially pre-agreed with the major customers around the world in the first places as to what they would want. But now that we have several of them out there, and in particular some of the new ones coming, such as A1C, and NT Pro, in addition to the CRPs and D-dimers that we already have there, plus of course the respiratory ones, flu A, flu B, we're getting requests pretty much everywhere. We're expecting significant response to the A1C customers pretty much everywhere. are asking for it. And this notion of a single platform, it clearly will help carry some of the other tests that we already have. So we should see some fairly serious acceleration of revenues as we work our way through 23. So to repeat the question that you asked Dorian We expect to get to break even by the end of 23, not during 23, at the end of 23.

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Vijay Kumar

Understood. And maybe a bigger picture question for you, Ron. I thought Dorian sort of reaffirmed the LRP of a billion revenues in 2025. Can you just remind us on what the billion contemplates in terms of endemic COVID respiratory revenues versus non-respiratory revenues and What gives you the confidence? That's a pretty steep ramp when you look at diagnostic end markets. You know, getting to a billion, that's a big number. So talk us about what gives you confidence.

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Ron

Just to clarify, we spoke to getting to that run rate within 2025 of the billion dollars. So, you know, kind of exiting 2025 with that run rate. I think we still see a similar view on, you know, endemic COVID as part of the overall respiratory offering. And we previously said that we expected that to be between 15 and 20% of that size of revenue and that size of our business going forward. I don't think our views have really changed on COVID, flu, and other respiratory testings making up about a fifth of the revenue on a go-forward basis.

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Ron Zwanziger

In fact, Vijay, that number that we gave of that estimate is a year old when obviously knowledge of the pandemic endemic was much less understood. But now the way it's unfolded, we have a lot more evidence of sort of the endemic phase. We're seeing sort of a lot of transition. And it may not be entirely apparent from our numbers, our revenues on a monthly basis since March, including up to the present into August, have been remarkably steady. And that's sort of reflecting the endemic stage of the pandemic now, and I'm not trying to predict the future here, but the real point I'm making, since you asked about the breakdown, I think that that estimate, which I think is quite modest, you know, to be down for respiratory to be 15 to 20% of our platform revenues, which we talked about over a year ago, I think now we probably have more confidence in that 15 to that estimate. Of course, it's still an estimate now, but I think we have more confidence around it now.

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Vijay Kumar

If I may squeeze one more in, apologies for the numerous questions here. On the strep and TB studies, I think I heard you mention late 2022 start, early 2023 start. Did I hear you correctly that the assays have been locked? And how long are these clinical trials, especially on the TB side, how long are these studies in general taking? And how do you see the revenue opportunity? I couldn't help observe what the private placement by the Gates Foundation and they're pretty big supporters of these kinds of tests. So maybe talk about the opportunities on the TV side.

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Ron Zwanziger

Well, I mean, people sort of underestimate, underestimate it. I think the potential is quite large. And you're right, the foundation, which have supported us in different ways over the years, including a significant uptick in our recent financing, are very keen to help us. And I'm sure they'll find various ways to help us get the product established.

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Vijay Kumar

And sorry, is that when you think about the adoption for tuberculosis, is that Is that a tender process, and is the Gates Foundation going to support you guys? Any thoughts on the commercialization of the TB assay?

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Ron Zwanziger

Well, I won't go into what might happen. I mean, it's self-evident. If you look at the number of different arrangements we've had with the foundations over the years, but I won't speculate on what might happen in the future. I think what you should focus on, Vijay, as to the outlook is the relative performance of what we do in general, both relative to the competition and also relative to the actual market need. The ability to have a community-based high performance TB test obviously has immense value. And because of our cost structure, it also happens to be beneficial for us as well.

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Vijay

Understood. Thank you, guys.

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Operator

Our next question comes from Jeffrey Cohen with Leidenberg. Your line is open.

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Jeffrey Cohen

Hi, Ron, Dorian, and Pooja. Thanks for taking our questions. Just a couple from our end. Ron, you had mentioned some exclusion criteria in the D-dimer test. Could you clarify that?

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Ron Zwanziger

Pooja, do you want to take that?

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Ron

Just to clarify, I think the comment that we made was that the D-dimer test recently can now be used to exclude VTEs in combination with a pretest probability score. So it's just an additional use case for the product that not only can it be used to aid in the diagnosis of a VTE, but it also can be used to, with confidence, rule out. And the clinical value of that is that there's a lot of downstream cost of patients going to the emergency room and utilizing, requiring ultrasound. So it's just an additional use case. Is that the question you're asking?

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Jeffrey Cohen

Yes, that's perfect. Thank you for clarifying that. And congratulations on HB1C and BNP with CE marks. Could you walk us through how that may roll out in the back half of the year as far as commercialization efforts and some territories perhaps in CE?

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Ron Zwanziger

Well, in non-Europe, we've got a number, as we mentioned, a number of regulatory applications that we are focusing on on combination of high burden countries and diabetes as well as well as sort of regulatory which can be achieved relatively quickly but in in the but in the back half of this year are in terms well focus our actual focus given that we have the regulatory we've met the regulatory needs in in in Europe We're very much initially focused on A1C and secondly on NT Pro. And we're gearing up for both of those through key opinion leaders, the usual approach and the excitement level in the commercial organization is sky high because they're getting such great feedback from customers.

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Jeffrey Cohen

That's very helpful. And then one more from our end. I guess for Ron, if you could talk a little bit about the U.S. market as it currently stands and number of placements and locations, and then talk about how INR and hemoglobin studies will play out and anticipate a duration and rollout of those tests.

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Ron Zwanziger

Well, we don't expect those tests to be out until well into next year, but the The installed base we have, you may recall that when we first started, because of our relationship with CVS, we got off to a fairly fast start simply because they have a large number of locations. But since then, the installed base in the U.S. is now to the point where it's pretty much parity between the locations in health systems and community care. So we have quite a spread now of our installed base across the U.S., both obviously in the retail setting, but also in health care systems.

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Jeffrey Cohen

Got it. Okay, perfect. Thanks for taking our questions. Sure.

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Operator

As a reminder, to ask a question, please press star 1-1. Our next question comes from Mark Massaro with BTIG. Your line is open.

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Mark Massaro

Hey, guys. Thank you for the questions. I didn't hear, or at least I don't think I heard an update on the install base of Lemura platforms. I think you exited or you finished Q2, excuse me, Q1 at around 25,000. How many did you place in Q2? And just by looking at the numbers, did instrument revenue come in somewhere in the six to seven million range for the quarter?

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Ron Zwanziger

The install balance is roughly the same. Dorian, you want to take the question?

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Ron

Sure, yeah. The installed base is relative to the same mark. For the calculation you're trying to do to get to the revenue that's not from test strips and from fast labs, please remember that we have the distribution revenue from the acquired distribution businesses we have, and that makes up the bulk of the remaining $6.5 million of revenue outside of fast labs and the test strips. So there was minimal instrument revenue in the quarter.

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Mark Massaro

Okay. How should we think about the pacing of instrument placements going forward? So obviously, you know, with the COVID situation going from pandemic to endemic, should we think of that more flattish? And then at what point do you see another inflection? You know, is it the perhaps is it the HBA1C or maybe walk us through which assay or assays may start moving the needle again on instruments?

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Ron Zwanziger

It's clearly the case that A1C is going to drive short-term placements, and so we should start seeing from the sort of the custom feedback that we're getting fairly significant placements for A1C and really accelerating into Q1 and beyond, and then NT-PRO will also take over. And I don't want to confuse matters by digressing a bit too. So that's where the growth will be coming from these and the placements will be Non-covert but having said that we've had a number of inquiries from from COVID customers Who actually are looking to to change their behavior away from other other testing that they do. And so we actually may get COVID placements to replace others because of the nature of our platform, because it offers them multiple multiple tests on the same on the same platform and and the COVID ultra of the five-minute test is proving to be extremely attractive in people's work in customers workflows so actually we may even based on on sort of quite a lot of recent feedback we may end up with strangers it may sound more placements on COVID as well

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Mark Massaro

Okay. I want to clarify the comments on the headcount reduction. So I think I heard 20% overall. And, you know, at the analyst day in New York, I believe you provided updates. I think you have roughly 200 or so salespeople in sales in 27 countries, or I should say sales reps in 27 countries, sales in 100 countries. Do you expect any impact on the sales and or marketing organization, or are you largely limiting this to manufacturing and R&D?

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Ron Zwanziger

It's the latter. We've also, given that we're doing an overall review, there is some change, but the majority is on the R&D, the manufacturing and R&D.

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Mark Massaro

Okay. Maybe Ron or Pooja, can you clarify the comments on the Amira platform? I think I heard a reduction in R&D expense and perhaps putting that on pause. Maybe walk me through what you mean by that. Are you evaluating whether or not Amira will be a key part of Lamira's future, or is this just largely a near-term pause for cash preservation purposes?

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Ron Zwanziger

It's the latter, and we've also had inquiries from others about ways of using it. So we're just sorting out a new business plan case for it.

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Mark Massaro

Okay, thanks. That's it for me.

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Operator

Again, to ask a question, please press star 1-1. There are no further questions. I'd like to turn the call over to Ron Zwanziger for any closing remarks.

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Ron Zwanziger

I'd like to close with a customer update, which actually somewhat relates to the last question we just had. One of our European customers, a major European customer, who currently use for COVID testing PCR lateral flow and our microfluidic platforms, just told us that they will be stopping all COVID testing with PCR and lateral flow completely, and they're moving to using our platform exclusively. They plan to order the COVID Ultra, the five-minute test, once available. They're starting to use the hemoglobin A1C testing, and in addition to all of this, they're expanding their PSC testing program into new geographies. This is just one of the many examples we have of customers that are delighted with our product performance and choosing to expand and convert testing to our platform. This is transformation of community-based care today happening right now. Thanks again for your questions and for joining our call today.

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