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Researchers evaluate self-administered scratch-and-sniff tests for COVID-19
A self-administered scratch-and-sniff test for COVID-19 may be around the corner, according to researchers at Penn State, the University of Florida and Arizona State University. The team, which received $912,000 from the National Institutes of Health, will analyze two different smell tests with a goal of developing inexpensive, at-home tests to help identify new cases of COVID-19 and provide a warning sign of a community outbreak in time to thwart it.
In 2020 alone, COVID-19 cost a million lives worldwide. It is critical that we develop new tools that can mitigate the spread of the deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus. Unfortunately, definitive SARS-CoV-2 testing has proven difficult to implement in many countries, including the United States, due to technical, financial and governmental hurdles to universal access and timely processing. Symptom-based screening offers a valuable, albeit imperfect, complement to vira
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. A self-administered scratch-and-sniff test for COVID-19 may be around the corner, according to researchers at Penn State, the University of Florida and Arizona State University. The team, which received $912,000 from the National Institutes of Health, will analyze two different smell tests with a goal of developing inexpensive, at-home tests to help identify new cases of COVID-19 and provide a warning sign of a community outbreak in time to thwart it. In 2020 alone, COVID-19 cost a million lives worldwide, said John Hayes, professor of food science at Penn State and a principal investigator of the study. It is critical that we develop new tools that can mitigate the spread of the deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus. Unfortunately, definitive SARS-CoV-2 testing has proven difficult to implement in many countries, including the United States, due to technical, financial and governmental hurdles to universal access and timely processing. Symptom-based screenin
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Researchers investigate an at-home ‘scratch-and-sniff’ test for COVID-19
Researchers will evaluate the results of two self-administered, scratch-and-sniff smell tests for COVID-19. The first involves asking users to identify odors such as smoke, strawberry, chocolate and onions, while the second is designed to reveal a participant’s sensitivity to different concentrations of the same odor.
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A self-administered “scratch-and-sniff” test for COVID-19 may be around the corner, according to researchers at Penn State, the University of Florida and Arizona State University. The team, which received $912,000 from the National Institutes of Health, will analyze two different smell tests with a goal of developing inexpensive, at-home tests to help identify new cases of COVID-19 and provide a warning sign of a community outbreak in time to thwart it.