While millions of COVID tests have been administered throughout the US and beyond, a new diagnostic tool promises to deliver faster results than any existing test. According to researchers, this new tool can help speed up mass testing, making it easier for people who need to be quarantined to do it on time. Read on to discover how you could find out if you were faster than ever before. And for more insight into the latest COVID research, dr. Fauci issued this warning over yet another new COVID voltage.
In a January 4 preview of a study published by medRxiv, researchers at the English University of Birmingham announced the development of a new way to test COVID, which takes less than five minutes to detect the virus track. Unlike previous ways to test COVID, the test developed by Birmingham University researchers uses only traditional laboratory equipment and does not require high heat application to samples, such as the PCR tests commonly used to to detect the virus.
In a press release, Tim Dafforn, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Birmingham’s School of Biosciences, said the new test ‘has the inherent sensitivity of an RNA test’, but with significantly faster results. The new test “can be used in existing care devices and meets the need for testing in high-throughput, near-patient settings where people can wait in line for their results,” Dafforn explained.
The rapid results of the new test, called the Exponential Amplification Reaction (EXPAR), which labeled single-stranded DNA, could be promising to not only perform mass testing, but also to get the pandemic under control faster, experts say. “With faster testing, we can unlock near patient tests, get people back to work safely, and control outbreaks when they happen,” he said. Andrew Beggs, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Cancer and Genomic Sciences. However, mass vaccination will be an equally important piece of the puzzle to get the pandemic under control – read on to find out in which countries the vaccinations are the slowest. And if you have already been diagnosed with coronavirus, you run the risk of long COVID if you have these 5 symptoms.
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Arizona
Total COVID vaccines distributed per 100,000 inhabitants: 5 759
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Michigan
Total COVID vaccines distributed per 100,000 inhabitants: 4,794
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Georgia
Total COVID vaccines distributed per 100,000 inhabitants: 4,649
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Kansas
Total COVID vaccines distributed per 100,000 inhabitants: 4,522
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Alabama
Total COVID vaccines distributed per 100,000 inhabitants: 3 508
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Mississippi
Total COVID vaccines distributed per 100,000 inhabitants: 3 274
And if you’re wondering where COVID cases are increasing, this state now has the worst COVID outbreak in the US