{"id":106527,"date":"2020-05-04T16:02:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/new-military-test-detects-covid-19-before-its-infectious"},"modified":"2020-05-04T16:02:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T23:02:53","slug":"new-military-test-detects-covid-19-before-its-infectious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/new-military-test-detects-covid-19-before-its-infectious","title":{"rendered":"New Military Test Detects COVID-19 Before It\u2019s Infectious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-military-test-detects-covid-19-before-its-infectious.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The test came out of DARPA, the U.S. military\u2019s research division, and may be granted an accelerated <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/fda-grants-emergency-use-remdesivir-covid19-patients\">emergency use authorization<\/a> by the FDA by the end of the week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/01\/us-germ-warfare-lab-creates-test-for-pre-infectious-covid-19-carriers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">according to <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the test works as expected, it could play a major role in preventing future outbreaks by letting people know they need to self-isolate well before they start spreading the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe concept fills a diagnostic gap worldwide,\u201d Dr. Brad Ringeisen, head of DARPA\u2019s biological technologies office, told <em>The Guardian<\/em>. He added that, should the FDA approve the test for use, it could be \u201cabsolutely a gamechanger.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The test came out of DARPA, the U.S. military\u2019s research division, and may be granted an accelerated emergency use authorization by the FDA by the end of the week, according to The Guardian. If the test works as expected, it could play a major role in preventing future outbreaks by letting people know they need [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}