Bill Gates is funding a new at-home COVID-19 testing programme and it's already testing 300 people a day
Bill Gates has announced he's helping to fund a new COVID-19 scanning program in Seattle.
Gates said SCAN is already scanning 300 people per day, and it will open up for applications from the public. Microsoft billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates is funding a new "disease surveillance" programme that samples the Seattle population for COVID-19., Gates said it involves sending Seattle citizens self-swab tests they can use at home to collect and send nasal samples to a lab, even if they are not showing symptoms.
He wrote: ""As a surveillance program, SCAN's goal isn't to test every person or serve as a replacement for medical care. The test results and a bunch of other information — age, gender, race, zip code, and underlying health conditions — will be used by researchers, data modelers, and public health officials to examine COVID-19's spread and identify at-risk demographics.
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