MDfrom the Harvard School of Public Health. As a major advocate for at-home, rapid testing, Dr. Mina explains how a $1 test could potentially curb COVID-19 spread in the United States and worldwide. In addition, he describes current barriers to making at-home rapid ...
Rapid, accurate, and scalable testing systems for COVID-19 diagnosis are essential to control SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 pandemic, and reopen society. The diagnosis of COVID-19 mainly relies on the detection of the coronavirus RNA. The gold standard testing system appro...
Due to the highly infectious nature of SARS-CoV-2 and its ability to be transmitted by asymptomatic individuals1, widespread testing for COVID-19 is critically important to preventing the spread of the virus1. The COVID-19 pandemic has put immense demands on molecular testing infrastructure2,3....
Analytical sensitivity and clinical performance of“ COVID-19 RT-PCR Real TM FAST (CY5)(ATGen, Uruguay) and” ECUGEN SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR“(UDLA-STARNEWCORP, Ecuador)”: High quality-low cost local SARS-CoV-2 tests for South America PLOS Neglect. Trop. D., 16 (4) (2022), p. e0010...
Therefore, rapid, facile, cost-effective and accessible detections for large-scale screening, in-field testing and point-of-care diagnosis of the disease are of great importance and urgency for quickly controlling the highly contagious and rapid spread of COVID-19. In this work, we first review...
I watched a demo, in the same conference (eek), of a chat bot that had been put in place to help gather more details about how people were coping during lockdown due to COVID 19. What was very interesting to me (other than I manage to stop myself from screaming at the screen) wa...
Considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s lives and views of health, the experience of the pandemic was also investigated, including people’s assessment of any changes in their access to HIV prevention services, HIV testing, and PrEP. CL took notes during interviews and ...
Extensive testing is essential to break the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, which causes the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we present a CRISPR-based diagnostic assay that is robust to viral genome mutations and temperature, produces results fast, can be applied directly on nasopharyngeal (NP) sp...
This is particularly true because access to clinical testing and analytical facilities are prioritized for certain populations at greater risk for severe outcomes due to infection with COVID-19 (SHA, 2022; Arts et al., 2022). Hence, accessibility to clinical testing is limited to certain segments...
including time savings (both during sampling and processing), cost savings and most importantly, ease of distribution and application—which can be done basically anywhere, including schools. This can help overcome COVID testing disparities for children and adolescents in medically...