Global Pandemic: A 60 Second Covid-19 Test in Development

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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As many countries begin reopening, developments in coronavirus testing and vaccines remain top priority. There is some initial hope coming out of Israel where a team at Ben Gurion University of the Negev has developed a 60 second breathalyzer test with a high accuracy rate. FOX’s Trey Yingst takes us inside the university lab and speaks with Professor Gabby Sarusi on how the test works and when we can expect mass production to begin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.6	I'm Ainslie your heart, and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:19.6	Tuesday, May 19th, 2020. I'm Trey Yinks. A coronavirus breakthrough. A new test for COVID-19 delivers results in less than a minute.
0:31.3	But eventually this capsule is going to be inserted into the spectrometer to be scanned for about 20 seconds.
0:38.4	And then after one or one and a half second of mathematical processing,
0:43.4	you will get the results, whether it is a carrier of coronavirus
0:47.2	or is not a carrier of coronavirus.
0:49.7	This is the Fox News rundown global pandemic.
1:00.0	The race for a coronavirus vaccine and treatment continues though countries around the world are eager to return to normal life.
1:04.0	The current gold standard for testing, a nasal and throat swab can take hours or days to deliver
1:08.8	results, but a new development could change that timeline.
1:12.8	Over the next few minutes, you'll get the latest headlines on the global COVID-19 outbreak
1:16.9	and hear from Professor Gabi Serusi at the Bengorian University of the Nikev,
1:21.5	about his new rapid coronavirus test.
1:24.2	Starting first though in Russia where the country saw more than 9,000 new cases of COVID-19 today.
1:29.9	The Russians now have more than 300,000 total cases as the country enters six week of lockdown.
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