A recent COVID-19 case in Shelby County has been flagged as a possible variant strain from the United Kingdom, which threatens to undermine progress made
ORNL and UT partner to create new at-home COVID-19 test that works like a whistle
It doesn t require any poking or prodding. All you have to do is blow the whistle and your breath sample is captured inside. Author: Amelia Young (WBIR) Updated: 2:36 PM EST February 3, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Advances are being made in the fight against COVID-19 every day.
Now, a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center are helping improve at-home testing. Instead of saliva or nasal swabs, this test is done with a simple breath of air.
If you ve gotten tested for COVID-19, you know the feeling of the swab, but now new technology is changing the game through a whistle.
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A recent COVID-19 case in Shelby County has been flagged as a possible variant strain from the United Kingdom, which threatens to undermine progress made in reducing transmission rates of the virus.
The so-called B.1.1.7 or U.K. strain was first found in Tennessee in January with the state’s health commissioner, Dr. Lisa Piercey, predicting it could become the primary source of COVID infections by March.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the U.K. variant spreads more quickly than others, but is so far not thought to be more deadly.
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Nanoscience - Blowing the whistle on COVID-19
Collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center are developing a breath-sampling whistle that could make COVID-19 screening easy to do at home.
The technology incorporates a unique hydrogel material to capture aerosols from exhaled breath and preserve the samples, which could either be sent to a lab for analysis or, for a fully at-home approach, transferred to an accompanying test kit that could detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
ORNL, UT Health Science Center to develop COVID-19 screening whistle for home testing
If you ve gotten tested for COVID-19, you know the feeling of the swab, but now new technology is changing the game through a whistle. Author: Dalisa Robles (WBIR), Amelia Young (WBIR) Published: 1:58 PM EST February 2, 2021 Updated: 8:36 AM EST February 3, 2021
OAK RIDGE, Tenn Everyday advances are being made in the fight against COVID-19.
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center are working to develop a breath-sampling whistle that could make COVID-19 screening easy to do at home.
If you ve gotten tested for COVID-19, you know the feeling of the swab, but now new technology is changing the game through a whistle.