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Pentagon develops microchip that detects COVID under your skin - New York Post

Pentagon develops microchip that detects COVID under your skin - New York Post

Pentagon develops microchip that detects COVID under your skin - New York Post
Apr 12, 2021 1 min, 12 secs

Medical researchers at the Pentagon have created a microchip that will detect COVID-19 when inserted under the skin.

Matt Hepburn, an infectious disease physician, revealed that the microchip, which is not in widespread use outside the Defense Department, could detect COVID-19 in an individual well before a patient zero spawns an outbreak.

“We challenge the research community to come up with solutions that may sound like science fiction,” said Hepburn, whose role at DARPA, he added, is to “take pandemics off the table.”.

Despite conspiracy theories that claim Microsoft’s Bill Gates is using vaccines as a vehicle to insert a microscopic global positioning system into our bodies, “60 Minutes” clarified that DARPA’s chip would not “track your every move.” Nor is it being administered via shots, as some would-be Twitter sleuths have pondered.

The microchip, embedded in a tissue-like gel, is designed to continuously test the chip recipient’s blood for presence of the virus.

Once COVID-19 is detected, the chip alerts the patient to conduct a rapid blood test, which can be self-administered, to confirm the positive result.

The segment also revealed technology that would allow a standard dialysis machine to remove COVID-19 from the blood using a customized filter

DARPA scientists say that their research is critically important to preventing outbreaks in crowded military quarters, such as the one that occurred on the USS Theodore Roosevelt in March and April 2020, which saw 1,271 crewmates test positive for the coronavirus

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