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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-gates-coronavirus-testing-at-home-program/

 

Bill Gates is funding an at-home coronavirus test program โ€” and it's already testing 300 people per day

 

Bill Gates is funding a new program to provide at-home coronavirus testing kits to residents in the Seattle area. The initiative aims to help researchers better understand how COVID-19 spreads through communities.

 

"In any fight, it's important to know your enemy. Unfortunately, in our battle against COVID-19, there's a lot that we still don't know," the Microsoft co-founder wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. "More testing, of course, will help us answer them. But with tests in short supply in many parts of the world, including the U.S., it is impossible to test everyoneโ€”at least for now."

 

In the blog post, Gates also said he is funding a first-of-its-kind disease surveillance program called the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) to detect cases of COVID-19 in the greater Seattle area โ€” the first hotspot of the outbreak in the United States. SCAN allows people to collect their own nasal samples using a self-swab test and then ship them to a lab โ€” all without ever leaving home. The program is testing both healthy and sick people, Gates said.