Antigen testing could be a faster, cheaper way to diagnose covid-19

Doctors are using AI to triage covid-19 patients

Sponsored by BBVA OpenMind The Download Your daily dose of what’s up in emerging technology 04.24.20 Good morning! Today: could antigen testing be a faster, cheaper way to diagnose covid-19? Plus: how the pandemic is encouraging hospitals to adopt AI tools. Get your friends to sign up here to get The Download every day. Antigen testing could be a faster, cheaper way to diagnose covid-19   The issue: Coronavirus testing in the US is nowhere near where it should be. A recent road map suggested we need to test upwards of 20 million people every day in order to safely reopen the economy (we’re currently running around 150,000 a day). How do we scale up? We might need an entirely different type of test. The gold standard is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, but it will be too hard to scale these up to the numbers we need. It might be possible with the antigen test, which looks for fragments of viral surface proteins as a marker for infection. It can deliver results on the spot, it’s cheaper than PCR and easier to use. However: Not everyone is gung-ho on the technology’s potential. An antigen test for a bacterial disease like strep works well. But respiratory viruses like coronavirus are a whole other game. The presence of the virus in the nasal cavity varies from person to person, and it’s possible they just won’t be accurate enough. Read the full story.  —Neel V. Patel Doctors are using AI to triage covid-19 patients. The tools may be here to stay What’s happening: Faced with staff shortages and overwhelming patient loads, a growing number of hospitals are turning to AI-based tools. Specifically, they’re using chest x-ray systems to help triage patients suspected of having covid-induced pneumonia. Many are using such technologies for the first time. Upsides and downsides: The pandemic, in other words, has turned into a gateway for AI adoption in health care—bringing both opportunity and risk. On the one hand, it is pushing doctors and hospitals to fast-track promising new technologies. On the other, this accelerated process could allow unvetted tools to bypass regulatory processes, putting patients in harm’s way. Read the full story.  —Karen Hao We can still have nice things A place for comfort, fun and distraction in these weird times. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or tweet 'em at me.)   + Join a Beatles Yellow Submarine singalong party on Saturday.   + Enjoy a relaxing game that lets you play with plants, sand, and water.   + The dogs breakfast grand final, with live commentary.   + Try out some guided meditation. If you like it, I recommend you give Buddhify a go.   + Learn about three famous paintings from one of the National Gallery’s curators.   + Kids are starting to issue written demands. God help us.   + A woman got her male friends to do a voiceover while she did her make-up. 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(Stat)   + Injecting disinfectant doesn’t work either, funnily enough. (BBC) 2 An antibody study estimates 13.9% of New Yorkers have had coronavirus The state randomly tested 3,000 people at grocery stores in 19 counties. (CNBC)   + CRISPR could help to scale up testing for covid-19. (Scientific American) 3 What the next month will look like, according to five models Most predict the US is past or near the peak of daily deaths. (NYT $)   + You need to get your head around R0. (NYT $) 4 Amazon used sellers’ data to launch its own versions of their products It’s being investigated by competition authorities around the world. (WSJ $)   + Some sellers say Amazon is overzealously policing price gouging. (Modern Retail)   + Amazon’s white collar workers are organizing, too. (Recode)   + Amazon Prime membership sales are booming. (Recode)   + What would shopping look like if Amazon suddenly disappeared? (Gizmodo) 5 Georgia is starting to reopen today But will people feel safe enough to go out? (Vox)   + How Argentina’s early lockdown helped to save lives. (Wired $) 6 Niche social networks are all the rage Want to just chat about baking, or running, or music? There’s a community for anyone online. (WSJ $)   + Knitting is a niche community online, and a political one at that. (TR)   + Why does it suddenly feel like 1999 on the internet? (TR) 7 Half of the Twitter accounts discussing coronavirus might be bots Um. (Vice) 8 Surveillance is on the rise as people work from home For the millionth time: we need new laws. (OneZero)   + Home workers need to reclaim their work/life balance. (Bloomberg $) 9 Have you noticed how weird advertising has become? Welcome to the dystopia zone. (The Atlantic)   + Facebook lets advertisers target people interested in “pseudoscience.” (The Markup) 10 Hollywood’s new exclusive club is on Zoom 🎬 Sadly, it’s password-protected. (Bloomberg $)    + Zoom now has 300 million users. (The Verge) Join us online at EmTech Next In an ever-changing environment of innovation and disruption, MIT Technology Review is proud to offer you a thought-provoking and networking-rich forum to analyze the technologies impacting your market, your strategy, your clients, and your workforce. Register today. Quote of the day “I don’t feel I have the capacity to even read all of the suggested brilliant things we can do with our kids.” —Sonya Dreizler speaks for all of us in a conversation with the Wall Street Journal. Top image credit: CLAUS BECH | RITZAU SCANPIX VIA AP Please send exclusive Zoom club invites to hi@technologyreview.com. Follow me on Twitter at @charlottejee. Thanks for reading! —Charlotte Was this newsletter forwarded to you, and you'd like to see more? Sign up for free Get unlimited access to online stories. 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