An at-home fingerprick blood test may help detect your exposure to coronavirus.
The test kits are manufactured by Innovita, a Beijing biotech company, that has an exclusive three-year U.S. partnership with Scanwell. Innovita, which Jeng says has the capacity to produce 500,000 kits a day, has distributed tests in China, Iran, and the Czech Republic.
Scanwell, which is best known for creating the first at-home smartphone-enabled UTI test cleared by the FDA, received its first shipment of 200 coronavirus test kits from Innovita last week and is expecting 10,000 more later this week. Labs across the country will begin testing the kits with blood from patients who've been confirmed to have COVID-19.
"If you're positive, you probably have some level of protective immunity. But frankly, we don't know how long that lasts at this point." New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is banking on antibody tests to identify individuals who've developed immunity to help restart the economy,"That would be very important for us to know because then healthcare workers that could go back to work," said Cuomo,"there are workers that could return back to the private sector."Kroll warned, however, that a positive test doesn't mean a quick return to the workplace.
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