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Back to School Conference Streaming

By Mark Jacobson on April 13, 2021 Events, NEWS, Uncategorized

Live Streaming Available on Tuesday and Wednesday (April 13th and 14th) Getting America open again begins with creating confidence and enabling citizens to go back to work and to school without fear of contracting COVID. The Back to School Conference: Safely Opening Classrooms in 2021 will presents thought leaders addressing the major challenges. If you have already registered you should have recieved an email with an Eventbrite link to claim your viewing ticket. If you can’t find the email, then please visit the link below and register again. There is still time to register for the event. Please use the…

School Nurse Leaders: Hear their Plan to Reopen Schools Safely

By Theresa on April 1, 2021 NEWS, Uncategorized

Please join the live Webinar via Zoom https://zoom.us/j/97095986810 The announcement last week of the Federal government funding of over $100 billion to schools to enable them to reopen is a tsunami which could easily wreak havoc on the American K-12 education system. The process by which these funds get delivered, appropriated is unknown. Understandably. We hope someone really smart is sorting this out, because it is complex. This could be the most complex government initiative in history. The Manhattan project (to build the nuclear bomb) was simple in comparison. At the epicenter of this storm and the likely casualties will…

Back to School Conference: Pre-Conference: Webinar Registration

By Theresa on March 31, 2021 Events, Uncategorized

Thermo Fisher’s New Device for Detecting Coronavirus Aerosols

By VP Staff on March 26, 2021 Containment, NEWS, Uncategorized

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Aerosol Sense Sampler was announced this week (March 24th). It detects a variety of airborne pathogens, including the coronavirus. The Aerosol Sampler is about the size of a toaster oven. It sucks in ambient air and trapped airborne virus particles — if there were any to be found — into a specialized cartridge. Daily removal of the cartridge then delivered to laboratory for analysis. At $4,995, AerosolSense is reputed to be simpler and more accessible and will enable collection of air samples “by almost anyone” according to observers. One device can cover about 2000 sf. Experts field…

X-Prize Winners for COVID Testing Announced

By VP Staff on March 16, 2021 Diagnostics, Diagnostics Tech, NEWS, Uncategorized

LOS ANGELES (March 16, 2021) – XPRIZE announced today the five winning teams in the $6M XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing competition to create high-quality, affordable COVID-19 testing to help society safely reopen and return to everyday activities. Chosen by an independent panel of judges, the grand prize winning solutions are radically affordable compared to what is currently available on the market; and are comparable to commercial offerings at measuring sensitivity, specificity and limit of detection, with a maximum turnaround time of 12 hours from sample to result. The winning teams are: Reliable LFC, LLC, Antigen Testing, Carlsbad, United States ChromaCode,…

Prem Premsrirut, M.D, PHD, President and CEO

SalivaClear is to Help People Across the Nation Return to School and Work with a Self-Collection Approach that is Noninvasive and Simple.

By Theresa on December 7, 2020 Diagnostics Tech, Uncategorized

Mirimus is the parent company of SalivaClear, a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing system with a focus on serving schools and workplaces. The goal of SalivaClear is to help people across the nation return to school and work with a self-collection approach that is noninvasive and simple. Prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus, Mirimus was heavily involved in genome editing technologies, especially in regards to the synergization of RNAi and CRISPR technologies. Mirimus is also considered a world leader in PCR testing, which is seen as the “gold standard” of Covid-19 testing. SalivaClear is centered around three main…

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Danish Study of 4,860 Finds .03 Divergence in Mask vis No Mask

By VP Staff on November 25, 2020 Containment, Germ Security, Uncategorized

A newly released study in the academic journal Annals of Internal Medicine casts more doubt on policies that force healthy individuals to wear face coverings. To conduct the study, which ran from early April to early June, scientists at the University of Copenhagen recruited more than 6,000 participants who had tested negative for COVID-19 immediately prior to the experiment. Half the participants were given surgical masks and instructed to wear them outside the home; the other half were instructed to not wear a mask outside the home. Roughly 4,860 participants finished the experiment. 42 people in the mask group, or…

The Fluxergy Approach Makes Testing Portable and Consolidates All of the Various Processes into One Device

By Theresa on November 19, 2020 Diagnostics, Uncategorized

Fluxergy is a medical diagnostics company based in Irvine, California. The company was founded in 2003, and aims to answer the question: “Why is there not a better laboratory testing system on the market that can conduct a variety of tests at the point-of-use?” Over the years, Fluxergy has been developing a high-speed testing platform and an overall system that relies on state-of-the-art polymer chain reaction (PCR) and microfluids technology. The Fluxergy approach makes testing portable and consolidates all of the various processes into one device. This device is easy to use by clinicians in a laboratory setting, and it…

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