Timeline for Is it possible for a bioaerosol/virus to be quickly detected?
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| Nov 11, 2022 at 23:03 | vote | accept | August Ross | ||
| Oct 25, 2022 at 15:19 | comment | added | John O | In the next 50 years or so, it's expected that there will be little biochips that can detect novel viruses... the trouble is that there are oodles of the things out there floating around that are completely irrelevant to human existence (even a few that are pretty awesome... wouldn't it be great to find one that just hates malaria?). False positives aren't a thing, once a virus starts its ramp up to pandemics, its qty would just spike off the charts. But by then, you have to wonder if it's not too late to do something about it. These technologies will probably work best in sealed ecosystems. | |
| Oct 25, 2022 at 2:22 | answer | added | DWKraus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 25, 2022 at 0:12 | answer | added | Gault Drakkor | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 22, 2022 at 23:21 | answer | added | Nepene Nep | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 22, 2022 at 22:32 | answer | added | Goodies | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 22, 2022 at 22:31 | comment | added | JBH | Just to make a point, there's nothing stopping you from introducing a color, a smell, an inert-but-trivially-detected gas (e.g., xenon) into (insofar as I know) any aerosol that has biological components in it like a virus. On the other hand, something that can detect the actual biological agent and detect it quickly? That's usually the stuff of Hollywood, but it's not impossible - especially for an agent you already know exists - but it very much depends on what "quickly" means. An at-home COVID test requires 10-30 minutes to demonstrate proof (but that's not a direct test, might not be one). | |
| S Oct 22, 2022 at 22:00 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Oct 22, 2022 at 22:00 | history | asked | August Ross | CC BY-SA 4.0 |