>>>Testing - UP
>>>Cases - UP
>>>% Positive - DOWN
>>>Hospitalizations - DOWN
>>>Deaths - DOWN
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>Meanwhile in Singapore..... a 1-minute breath test for COVID: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/asia-pacific/nus-spin-company-develops-one-minute-breath-test-detect-covid-19
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>Still needs to be validated, but it's a new and better style of test. Wonder what the Western media will make of that... so far little apparent interest a week later. But imagine the voluntary mass surveillance you could do with a breath test that doesn't need invasive expert sampling like current tests and offers real-time results! Theoretically society could re-open to anybody willing to submit to non-invasive test before entry to churches, schools, universities, hair salons... even entire communities. The crisis would be over if you can identify and exclude COVID Mary at the gate. Also, I wonder what effect mass surveillance would have on the various rates (or more accurately ratios, since rate theoretically includes time in the denominator). Of course the devil will be in the details: current PCR test can detect COVID by about day 3 of infection, which usually is before onset of symptoms at around day 5, with antibody/serology tests a lot slower at around 10 days. No indication yet on timing for the breath test but it needs to be equivalent to PCR (the nasal swab test) to offer a realistic alternative.

IMEC is working on the same thing.