COVID TEST IN ONE SECOND: Israeli methodology in the final phase of trials would revolutionize controls
It's certainly good news for people returning to offices, factories and schools this fall and undergoing regular COVID-19 testing: an Israeli hospital is carrying out clinical trials for a new "instant" test using saliva , instead of the more invasive and uncomfortable deep nasal swab.
The new test method is currently in clinical trials involving hundreds of candidates at the Center for Geographic Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv. It is assumed to show whether someone is positive or negative in under a second even with the use of artificial intelligence.
According to reports from Reuters , patients rinse their mouth with a saline solution and then spit everything into a vial that is analyzed. This happens extremely quickly because it is nothing more than a targeted spectroscopic analysis, that is, thanks to the refraction of light, it searches for specific elements. A breakthrough developed the analysis machinery has ridiculous costs. Sheba Hospital is working with the developer of the new technology, Israeli company Newsight Imaging, to bring it to market. It could really be a game changer, given the expected price tag of 25 cents for each individual test and $ 200 for the scanning machine itself. Currently, the reliability found in the test is 95%.
This system would therefore allow to test very large numbers of people in a very short time, and would therefore be applicable to airports, stations, workplaces, schools etc. It would allow instant tracing in the spread of the virus and the isolation of cases from its initial stages of contagion.
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