SensNews Aug 2020

19 Sensor100 August 2020 Abbott's Fast, $5, 15-Minute, Easy-to-Use COVID-19 An- tigenTest Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization Mobile App DisplaysTest Results to Help Our Return to Daily Life; Ramping Production to 50 MillionTests a Month Abbott's BinaxNOW™ COVID-19 Ag Card is a rapid, reliable, highly portable, and affordable tool for detecting active coronavirus infections at massive scale - Test delivers results in just 15 minutes with no instrumentation, using proven lateral flow tech- nology with demonstrated sensitivity of 97.1% and specificity of 98.5% in clinical study - Abbott to offer a no-charge complementary phone app, which allows people to display their BinaxNOW test results when asked by organi- zations where people gather, such as workplac- es and schools - Company will ship tens of millions of tests in September, ramping to 50 million tests a month at the beginning of October. A DeviceThat ‘Smells’ Covid-19 Could Help Avoid Future Lock-downs A device developed by Israeli company NanoScent can quickly detect whether someone is likely to have Covid-19 by ‘smelling’ their breath. To get a result from the Scent Check device, the person being tested must breath into a small bag, which is then plugged into an electronic scent reader.Within 30 seconds the sensor gives a positive or negative readout. Important- ly, it is also inexpensive to run, according to Orna Barash who is the Research Director at the company. Reported by Forbes 24 August