Category: coronaviurs
Alphabet’s Verily debuts a COVID-19 community testing toolkit as it scales its own testing efforts
While the origins of its coronavirus testing program were muddled by President Trump’s misleading announcements attributing its efforts to Google and inflating its scale, Alphabet’s Verily health sciences subsidiary has established and grown its community-based California testing initiative, deploying drive-up testing sites and ramping the number of tests completed from…
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Updated FDA COVID-19 testing guidelines specifically disallows at-home sample colllection
While a number of companies who currently offer at-home medical and health diagnostics had rushed to produce kits that would allow for self sample collection by people who passed a screening and believed they might have contracted the new coronavirus, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its…
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