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NYTimes Opinion | Rapid Tests Are the Answer to Living With Covid-19
Even with the effectiveness and availability of COVID-19 vaccines, testing will remain vital to controlling the global pandemic and ongoing transmissibility of new variants. The current gold-standard for COVID testing is a Polymerase Chain Reaction test, or PCR....
Testing Surveillance Protocols for Schools
As schools across the country reconvene, administrators are grappling with holding classes in the face of the Delta variant of COVID-19. Coronavirus infections are expected to trend upward, but the New York Times writes that Surveillance may hold the key to keeping...
IN THE NEWS | Testing Still Critical As Travel Opens Up in Hawaii
With vaccination rates increasing and the recent opening of Hawaii interisland travel, there has been a big drop in the numbers of COVID-19 tests being conducted statewide. Hawaii's KHON news spoke with several local and state experts about COVID-19 testing as just...
IN THE NEWS | Oceanit’s ASSURE-100 in Honolulu Civil Beat
Oceanit recently spoke with Civil Beat journalist, Eleni Avendaño, about the ongoing trials and development of ASSURE rapid tests. Oceanit's ASSURE is currently in clinical trials in multiple locations as the rapid tests advance towards submission to the U.S. FDA for...
Need For and Use of Rapid COVID-19 Testing In Hawaii Grows
COVID-19 tests are likely to remain part of our new normal, even as the overall pandemic situation stabilizes in Hawaii, says Civil Beat's Eleni Avendaño in a new article published on June 3rd. Hawaii's state epidemiologist, Dr. Sarah Kemble, reiterated to Civil Beat...
Despite Vaccines, the Need for Rapid COVID-19 Tests Remains
In December 2020, as vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 began rolling out across the country and around the world, the New York Times released a vaccine timeline calculator to help readers determine how long it could be before they could receive their shots. The New York Times...
IN THE NEWS | Oceanit Progresses Towards FDA EUA Submission
Oceanit has been hard at work to develop and perfect the ASSURE-19 rapid test for submission to the U.S. FDA for emergency use authorization. Hawaii News Now reconnected with Dr. Patrick Sullivan last week to speak about the huge effort being made and the challenges...
COVID-19 Cases Still Growing, Links to Academic Papers
On October 24th, the United States tracked 78,702 new infections of Covid-19, a +32% 14-day change. The same day, 871 new COVID-related deaths were counted, this represents a +15% 14-day change. According to the New York Times, twenty-six states are at or near record...
PRESS RELEASE | National Institutes of Health Approves Next Round of ASSURE-19 Funding Under the RADx ‘Next’ Program
Honolulu, HI | Oceanit Laboratories received approval from NIH for next round funding under the RADx initiative, receiving an additional $250,000 for further development of the ASSURE-19 rapid Covid-19 saliva test. With this latest round of funding, Oceanit will have...
IN THE NEWS | The Call for Rapid, Point-of-Teed Testing Gets Louder
In an opinion piece for the Civil Beat Ideas Section, State Representatives, Bob McDermott (House District 4: Ewa, Ewa Beach, Ewa Gentry and Iroquois Point) and Gene Ward (Hawaii House Minority Leader) called for CARES Act funds to be applied to help build and develop...