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• Blood Tests Can Predict ICU Admission Even Before COVID-19 Patients Become Critically Ill

• Heart MRI Scans Can Enable More Accurate COVID-19 Diagnoses and Target Treatments More Effectively

• New Approach to Pooled COVID-19 Testing Could Be Highly Effective in Curbing SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

• Stamp-Sized Microfluidic Chip Uses Programmed Magnetic Nanobeads and Off-the-Shelf Cellphone to Diagnose COVID-19

• On-Skin, Wearable Bioelectronic Device Could Aid Early Detection of COVID-19

• Rapid Point-of-Care COVID-19 Antigen Test Based on Waveguide Technology Could Deliver Results in Under Six Minutes

• New COVID-19 Test to Scan Saliva or Nasal Swabs Using Specialized Probes for Detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA Sequences

• Siemens Lab-Based SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Assay (CoV2Ag) Obtains CE Mark for Use with Its High-Throughput Analyzers

• Machine Learning Model Uncovers Genetic Predisposition to Severe COVID-19

• Mathematical Model Estimates False-Negative Rate for COVID-19 Tests

• Two New Diagnostic Tests Can Differentiate Between COVID-19 Variants and Multiple Viruses with Rapid Turnaround Times

• PerkinElmer Launches New Highly Sensitive Point of Care COVID-19 Antigen Test for Mass Screening

• People with Absence of Natural Killer Cell Receptor Most Likely to Develop Severe COVID-19, Finds Study

• Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Can Be Stored at Standard Freezer Temperature, Claims Submission for Revision of FDA EUA

• World’s First AI Rapid Antigen Test System for COVID-19 Delivers Highly Accurate Results on Smartphone Within 5-8 Minutes

• Antibody-Based COVID-19 Treatments Work Best in Concert with Immune Cells, Finds Study

• D614G Mutation Makes SARS-CoV-2 Up to Eight Times More Infectious than Initial Virus that Originated in China

• Agilent Launches New Immunoassay Kit to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies

• First-Ever Highly Sensitive Antibody Tests Could Detect Infection with All Known Human Coronaviruses, Including New SARS-CoV-2 Variants

• New Diagnostic Device Identifies COVID-19 Patients at Risk of Potentially Lethal Cytokine Storm

• Advanced X-Ray Imaging Technique for Detecting Breast Cancer Could Also Diagnose COVID-19

• Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Predicts Individual Mortality Risk for COVID-19 Patients

• Breakthrough Respiration Treatment to Be Used on Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients