Inside Beijing’s Olympic Bubble: Robots, Swabs, and a Big Gamble

[ad_1] BEIJING: Strategy is daring and suffocating, and that’s the point. According to Chinese officials, the creation of a giant bubble was their best (and perhaps only) hope for safely holding the Olympic Games and maintaining a “zero Covid” policy, a priority for the government and a source of national pride. The game organizers said …

Emerging Data Raise Questions About Antigen Tests and Nasal Swabs

[ad_1] Small, new real world work He suggests that two commonly used home antigen tests, Abbott BinaxNOW and Quidel QuickVue, may not detect some Omicron infections even when people have high levels of coronavirus. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, focused on 30 people infected with the virus in five workplaces who experienced …

Emerging Data Raise Questions About Antigen Tests and Nasal Swabs

[ad_1] Small, new real world work He suggests that two commonly used home antigen tests, Abbott BinaxNOW and Quidel QuickVue, may not detect some Omicron infections even when people have high levels of coronavirus. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, focused on 30 people infected with the virus in five workplaces who experienced …