COVID-19
The collection kit comes with a bottle of stabilization fluid to be mixed with the sample at the point of collection, keeping viral RNA stable at room temperature for up to one week.
The temporary policy also extends to some clinical decision support software used in conjuction with these remote monitor devices.
Digital health investors discuss the opportunity, responsibility and liability of investing in health tech during market volatility and a possible recession.
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[Since this article was published, the FDA has released an alert warning that it has not yet authorized any COVID-19 home testing kits]
TraceTogether works by exchanging short-distance Bluetooth signals between phones to detect other participating TraceTogether users in close proximity.
Early data from the roughly 100,000-participant effort suggest infrequent social distancing and regional behavior disparities (as of March 15).
[Since this article was published, the FDA has released an alert warning that it has not yet authorized any COVID-19 home testing kits]
The recently announced COVID-19 Open Research Dataset consists of more than 29,000 machine-readable coronavirus articles ripe for analysis.
Online mental health support is increasingly important as communities face lockdown and social distancing measures.