At-home rapid tests can be an extremely useful tool for allowing life to proceed semi-normally. 

How do you manage that risk? The answer is to test again.

It is worrisome! The fact that the residents died despite being fully vaccinated. The Columbia variant (B.1.621) is rising in South Florida.

A new face mask could diagnose those who wear it with Covid-19 within about 90 minutes.

Got the sniffles? Worried about that night out in a crowded dance club? Or maybe you just want to visit grandma but are concerned about her risk, even though you’re vaccinated. Dagelijks 92.000 tests.

Om verspreiding van het coronavirus tegen te gaan zoeken de GGD’en tijdens het bron- en contactonderzoek onder andere uit waar iemand mogelijk besmet is met het virus. De app CoronaMelder is daarvoor gemaakt.

It’s going to be the summer of outbreak hunting. Contact tracing can prevent the past from repeating itself.

Wastewater sampling has been under investigation since the beginning of the pandemic as a way to monitor levels of the novel coronavirus in whole populations.

Sniff out the disease based on a mix of chemical components exhaled by the patient. This approach promises to be faster and less unpleasant than a nose or throat swab, and cheaper. The Breathalyzer!

Preventief testen voor toegang, wie betaalt de rekening? Je kan een ondernemer niet laten opdraaien voor kosten die in opdracht van de overheid gemaakt moeten worden en je kan de consument niet laten betalen.

Protecting from Covid-19 may benefit from sharing testing resources with the wider community. Why it pays to think outside the box on tests.

This machine learning screening tool could help identify individuals who may be infected with Covid-19 reducing the spread in a wide variety of public settings, including healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, theme parks, stadiums and airports.

When levels of pollen in the air are higher, there is an increased risk of Covid-19 infection.

Wastewater surveillance takes advantage of two things: increasingly inexpensive genetic sequencing tools and the undeniable fact that almost everything that goes into our body eventually ends up in sewage.

New mRNA vaccine platforms, up-and-coming CRISPR diagnostics and other genomics-based tools may be the key to halting future pandemics. 

Covid-19 vaccinations: Europe. Total doses given per 100 population. Click arrow for more countries.

The one-size-fits-all approach to testing by many western countries has failed. Testing to diagnose a patient with Covid-19 is fundamentally different than testing a person to prevent onward transmission. Collection can be from symptomatic or asymptomatic individuals, as well as from wastewater and swabs of surfaces.

We’ve seen a dramatic increase in the use of telemedicine during Covid-19. We are also going to see how testing and home diagnosis is becoming much more important

T-Cells may best antibodies for detecting past Covid-19 infection.

Google Maps can now show you how crowded public transport is in real time, helping you avoid a particular train or bus route if it’s going to be difficult to socially distance. 

With the need for retailers and other businesses to quickly get check-in infrastructure in place, QR codes are having a renaissance.

Countries worldwide are looking to develop alternative tests to the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) nasal swab, which is invasive.

Create complex tests with a modern UI that combines drag-and-drop editing with code interfaces for advanced customization and automates test creation based on spec files. A short webinar !

Tests for Covid-19 that show on-the-spot results in 15 to 30 minutes. Potentially saving many thousands of lives and slowing the pandemic in both poor and rich countries.

Om te beginnen moeten we toe naar sneltests. Die zijn niet zo goed in het voorspellen van wie positief is, maar wel wie negatief is. First rapid Covid-19 test at home.

Het front tegen het virus lag in de eerste maanden van de crisis op de intensive cares van de ziekenhuizen, maar is inmiddels verschoven naar de testlocaties en laboratoria. 

Two new studies have found that tests that look for the virus in samples of saliva are about as reliable as tests that require a sample from the back of the nose.

Although testing is an important and essential part of managing diseases like Covid-19, improper utilization can potentially have unintended negative consequences.

For people without symptoms, we also need broad availability of more rapid but sometimes less accurate screening tests. To detect outbreaks sooner and give people more confidence in their workplaces and schools.

Health authorities will collect samples from surfaces, workers’ clothes and hands, freezers, meat and seafood, sewage, bathrooms, and garbage trucks at the markets and test them within 24 hours. In addition, aerosol samples from poorly ventilated places within the markets will also be sent for testing.

90-minute tests that can detect coronavirus and flu will be rolled out in care homes and laboratories from next week. The on-the-spot swab and DNA tests will help distinguish between Covid-19 and other seasonal illnesses.

But to defeat Covid-19, we also need to help the people who manage contact tracing programs measure their effectiveness, understand which factors are most impacting performance, and use that information to make improvements. That’s what this new course is about.

The worst could be still to come in the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, six months on from when the outbreak began. The virus would infect many more people if governments did not start to implement the right policies. Test, Trace, Isolate and Quarantine (2020.06.30).

Health officials dismissed the risk for months, pushing misleading and contradictory claims in the face of mounting evidence. Aggressive testing and flawless contact-tracing contained the spread.

It’s commonly believed that COVID-19 is a short-term illness caused by infection with the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and most health sources suggest that people will recover within two weeks or so. But it’s becoming increasingly clear that this isn’t the case for everyone infected with coronavirus. Some people have reported symptoms for three weeks or more, while others have been suffering for months. How long does Covid-19 last?

Schiffmann saw a problem and decided to step in with a solution. In late December , way before most people were even concerned about COVID-19, he put his coding skills to use. The resulting project would turn out to be ncov2019.live, now one of the world’s most utilized coronavirus tracking tools.