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Australians develop a 20-minute test for COVID-19 – The Australian Financial Review
With strong esprit de corps, a group of Australians developed a world-first, quick, cheap blood test that tells you if you have recently had COVID-19.
Rather than detecting the presence of active infection, the test looks for antibodies to determine if the person was recently infected. The test is performed after the infection is resolved.
It can be used to show how widely the virus has spread and has utility for population screening, case identification, contact tracing, and potentially for confirming vaccine efficacy during clinical trials.
Its rapidity and its high-volume capacity could be particular useful in countries that are overwhelm…
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