This is what we need:
"They’re calling it a potential game-changer in the country’s fight against the coronavirus, which until now has relied on a patchwork array of tests that take days to return, can only be performed by medical professionals and are generally expensive.
Amy Drexelius is a graduate student at UC and helped design the new point-of-care devices, which work similarly to a pregnancy test, where a pink line indicates a person is positive for the virus.
Drexelius says the device was developed with influenza in mind and that it has not been used to test for the coronavirus specifically. Still, she and her fellow researchers say it should be able to do just that.
“We’re really confident that it could work for coronavirus like influenza,” she said. “The coronavirus is an upper-respiratory infection. You can find a lot of the virus in your nasal-pharyngeal passages. That’s why they usually make a swab to get a sample. So, we’re confident that you can use similar methods to concentrate the coronavirus like you would with influenza. So this device would work for both of them.”
Drexelius says this is a major breakthrough."
New tech can offer rapid at-home COVID-19 test, UC researchers say
The government needs to make these things free and widely available.
If everybody could simply test themselves and know if they are contagious or not then they would know if they should isolate or if it would be safe to go out into society.
If we could get everyone to be conscientious about this, masks and distancing would no longer be needed for the general public. (but of course we know that will never happen)
The only problem is everyone's health depends on the responsibility of others.
Ya know what makes a nation great?
A nation would be really great if everybody was responsible.
It is the irresponsible people that destroy civility.
We can hardly hope to create a society of responsible people as long as we have an irresponsible leader.
First things first..
Vote Joe Biden President of the United States.
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