Posted on 01/13/2022 12:48:22 PM PST by Red Badger
The Fresh Air Clip can be used to screen indoor environments and establish whether they are high-risk areas for exposure to SARS-CoV-2Adapted from Environmental Science & Technology Letters 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00877 VIEW 1 IMAGES
Engineers from Yale University have developed a wearable device that can help individuals assess whether they have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The cheap device can clip onto a person’s clothes and capture aerosolized viral particles in the surrounding environment.
From rapid tests to vaccines, many extraordinary innovations have helped us navigate this global pandemic. While we have a number of ways to determine whether a person has been infected with SARS-CoV-2, we still can only guess when and how someone has been exposed to the virus.
This new innovation from a team of Yale University researchers is hoping to fill that surveillance gap. Called the Fresh Air Clip, the device is cheap, designed to attach to a person’s collar and capture aerosolized viral particles around a person’s mouth and nose.
The clip captures viral particles on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surface. At the end of a day, or several days, a wearer removes the clip and sends it to a lab which uses polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis to determine the presence of SARS-CoV-2.
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World’s most USELESS INVENTION. It not really useful like cumulative dose radiation monitors which lets you know it’s time to stay away from radiation sources for a while.
It will be a long time before the pandemic is gone. It’s too valuable to the political class, too much money to be made by hucksters, and too many Americans love the fear porn.
which uses polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis to determine
Pffft.
Spit.
Griffters.
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So, another device which will mostly show false positives.
“The clip captures viral particles on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surface. At the end of a day, or several days, a wearer removes the clip and sends it to a lab which uses polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis to determine the presence of SARS-CoV-2.”
sweet! now if i can just remember all of the many places i’ve been in for those days a week before i got back the test results, i can stay away from all of them, because apparently AT THE TIME that i was at one of them, supposedly covid was present ... hmmm, let’s see: most of the time i was at home or at work; guess i’ll just have to find a new place to live and work ...
Tacky silicone? That’s it?
I thought it would be an instant, color changing material that would let you instantly know.
BTW they FDA stopped EUA of PCR tests at the beginning of this month:
https://amos37.com/rt-pcr-test-loses-fda-emergency-use-authorization-on-january-1-2022/
“I thought it would be an instant, color changing material that would let you instantly know.”
a siren would be better ... one of those klaxon types used when WWII subs dived ...
Maybe not the "most" useless, but definitely not a news worthy breakthrough. Devices such as this might be useful research tools to monitor and understand the distribution of aerosolized Covid. It has no use for personal protection.
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