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If you are interested, a player from the NBA now it can be done a coronavirus test for yourself and get the results on his cell phone in no more than 20 minutes.
And the league is convinced that those tests are fast and accurate enough.
Is about a high-tech answer to the question of waiting for test results. The NBA partnered with a company called Cue Health, which provides the league with technology that allows anyone to practically take a home test for COVID-19.
Person introduces the swab to the nose, places it in a reader —Almost the size of two sets of cards— connected wirelessly to your smartphone and you get the result much faster that time with most other alternatives can deliver it.
The NBA is based on a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic indicating that the tests are correct 97.8% of the time. Cue Health was in the process of using the technology for flu testing at the time the pandemic began, then quickly adjusted when it became clear that the fight against the coronavirus would be global.
We were in the clinical studies stage when COVID struck. It was a very fast transition for us because the platform is really modular, so testing for covid-19 was relatively routine for us, ”explained Cue CEO and co-founder Ayub Khattak.
In some cases, tests conducted by the NBA last season forced teams and players to wait for the results for hours.
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