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COVID-19 Impact: Hardest Hit Countries and Those Still Struggling in 2025
Explore the global impact of COVID-19, highlighting the hardest-hit countries and those still struggling to recover. Learn about testing, vaccines, and ongoing challenges.
How COVID-19 Affected the Worlds of Sports and Entertainment
Explore how COVID-19 has impacted sports events, film productions, and entertainment industries, including adaptations like rapid testing and virtual engagement.
Learning from COVID-19 and Asymptomatic Spread
In his new book, Prof. Weitz emphasizes how COVID-19 is evolving away from the heights of the pandemic and toward a seasonal endemic disease, characterized by silent asymptomatic spread, which complicates containment.
PRESS RELEASE | Oceanit’s ASSURE-100 Rapid COVID-19 Home Test Receives FDA Over-The-Counter Authorization
On December 22, 2022, Oceanit’s ASSURE-100 received FDA Over-The-Counter authorization. The ASSURE-100 Rapid COVID-19 Home Test authorization, an over-the-counter home test, comes ten months after initial point-of-care EUA was granted on February 28, 2022.
PRESS RELEASE | Oceanit Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for ASSURE-100 Rapid COVID-19 Tests
Oceanit receives U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the ASSURE-100 rapid antigen test for detection of COVID-19.
PRESS RELEASE | Oceanit Selected As a Semi-Finalist For the XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing Competition
Oceanit’s ASSURE-19 Covid-19 test was selected as a semifinalist from a pool of nearly 700 teams from around the world competing for the XPRIZE for Rapid Covid Testing. We will now perform blind proficiency testing on inactive virus samples sent to us by the XPRIZE Foundation as the next step towards becoming a finalist for the award.