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Low-tech Covid test costs $1 w results in 1 hour (medrxiv.org)
24 points by blacksqr on July 27, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Did I misread something or is this just a well known existing protocol combined with yet another DIY centrifuge?

It seems to me that the cheap spinny thing part of this is long solved (Paperfuge). What we need is to make the chemistry reliably foolproof. This fool (me) doesn’t even recognize all of the units they use in the paper.


Explanation for why a cheap COVID-19 test is useful: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-640/





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