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Healthy Ventures was the lead investor this round, with participation from Collaborative Fund, Commerce Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, I2BF Global Ventures and StartUp Health.
Facebook also plans to hold a virtual hackathon focused on COVID19.
The collection kit comes with a bottle of stabilization fluid to be mixed with the sample at the point of collection, keeping viral RNA stable at room temperature for up to one week.
Digital health investors discuss the opportunity, responsibility and liability of investing in health tech during market volatility and a possible recession.
The temporary policy also extends to some clinical decision support software used in conjuction with these remote monitor devices.
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[Since this article was published, the FDA has released an alert warning that it has not yet authorized any COVID-19 home testing kits]
TraceTogether works by exchanging short-distance Bluetooth signals between phones to detect other participating TraceTogether users in close proximity.
Early data from the roughly 100,000-participant effort suggest infrequent social distancing and regional behavior disparities (as of March 15).
The round was led by Octopus Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, Startup Health and Triple Point Ventures.