Covid-19: Air sampling surveillance may give early warning of infection risks | THE BIG STORY

Associate Professor David Allen, from the Infectious Diseases Translational Research Programme at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and Dr Irvan Luhung, a senior research fellow at SCELSE, share more about this system.

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[beejoooh]

You can build the device to trapped it, why not put in an a circulation system to trapped and kill the virus.

[focus]

"Our healthcare workers – who have now been stretched for almost two years – are bearing the brunt of the burden(mistake by decision makers) . If not for our high vaccination rates, the workload of our healthcare workers would have been many times heavier, " the health ministry said."

See, Ah wong. I m from "lousy school", but my common sense told me opening is a grave mistake. And i was right. It is easy to sit inside aircon office and do the decision making, but reality doesn't hide inside the aircon room, dude. Got time come outside walk walk lah....take note of what action and situation other countries have experienced and don't make another silly decision again.

[godsamazinggrace]

Now resort to sniffing virus infection??
My goodness!!

[krollpeter]

Seeing this, I asked myself wouldn't prevention be better than detection?
Some German school installed a simple exhaust system at the ceiling of classrooms, that sucks the air out from over the head of the students. Not only it helped to reduce transmission, but also people say the air is better.

[rwksasc]

These guys aren’t capable of answering the simple question: how is it going to help us?

[MrCam]

Why not use it as a test device for breath testing instead.?

[dachee]

In my opinion, if the Covid virus can be picked up from the air that is more than 2 meters from any source, then we are really in big trouble! Specially with the current Covid 19 home recovery scheme, what will happen to the neighbours if the virus travels into their units?

[haidendin]

👍hope the doctors can create a machine to detect covid like the one used during sars.

[foreveryoung]

What do you do if it constantly detects covid in the air 24/7?

[oldlee]

Did these nus prof work with wuhan gain of function?