Fast SARS-CoV2 detection in the air technology coming. Amazing! https://memod.com/ScienceSimplified/new-technology-can-detect-airborne-covid-19-in-milliseconds-5864/part-1
It's a pretty exciting technology. I suspect it's a pretty long ways away from being rolled out anywhere, but, these are the types of scientific results we need if we're ever going to get out of this mess.
For anyone interested, here's PNNL's news release on it:
https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/covid-causing-virus-air-detected-high-tech-bubbles
Thank you for sharing the news release regarding detection of SARS-CoV2 in the air: https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/covid-causing-virus-air-detected-high-tech-bubbles
I was thinking of ways this alert system may be useful in the future. If this is used in public spaces such as classrooms, it may save on rapid antigen screening everyone and screen individuals only in classrooms that were alerted. But why not consider using it as a breathalyzer test at entry points into public spaces? From a public health standpoint, this makes the most sense.
@BE @huskify
I should really contact them and see what it will take to mass produce / commercialize. I do not have the bandwidth to do that right now. I do wonder what the cost order of magnitude is, though.