Bill Gates has been warning about the risk of a pandemic disease for years and his foundation pledged $100 million last month to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting a project that will provide at-home coronavirus test kits to those at risk in the Seattle area, which has been hard-hit by the coronavirus outbreak in the US. Seattle Times
that the goal of the project is to eventually be able to process thousands of tests a day. The kits will allow people who are concerned that they may have been infected to swab their noses and send the samples back for testing. According to The Times, the results should be available in one to two days, and those who test positive can fill out an online form to answer questions about their movements to help track the spread of disease. to fight the coronavirus outbreak. A majority of the funds have been designated toward vaccine research, frontline responders, prevention measures, and treatment efforts around the world.
The at-home test kits may help Washington state as it works to contain an outbreak of the new coronavirus. The state has
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