Friday, October 30, 2020

African scientists made better testing kits for Covid

The United States badly bungled coronavirus testing—but things may soon improve | Science | AAAS

Summary: In Nigeria, people are getting Covid a lot faster than some countries because most of them probably didn’t know that they had Covid. The test kits the country buys are expensive and it takes a long time to get results. Scientists have seen the problem and fixed it by making faster and cheaper test kits that can do almost the same as normal ones. The new kits are less than $25 and take 40 minutes to get back results. Cases have gone down after these kits were released. The World Health Organization said that they would make 120 million high-quality rapid test kits for low to medium income countries. They say it's under $5.


Analysis: I feel that if most of the people on earth learn or read about this, they can have a different perspective of Africans. They can see that they are smart people and some of them can even change the world. These testing kits also can help us stop the spreading just a little bit which can mean a lot. Since the cases in Nigeria went down once these testing kits were released, if other countries had them then the spread would decrease even more. I also feel that we are getting closer to stopping Covid everyday. Since there are so many scientists in the world trying to help.


Discussion question: Why have other scientists not tried to make cheaper and faster test kits before?
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 30, 2020 at 10:25 AM

    i think you have a great blog, this issue is very relevant and its a serious issue around the world. you analysis is precise and to the point. Great Job

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  2. AnonymousOctober 30, 2020 at 10:34 AM

    Your article shows a great point. Your summary was precise and to the point. And it would be great if more people have access to this kit so the covid numbers would go down!!

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  3. AnonymousOctober 30, 2020 at 10:36 AM

    Sup Eric? I think the reason that scientists are not making them cheaper is because the stuff required to make them is too expensive. A lot of these companies also want to make money as well so they have to increase their prices.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 30, 2020 at 10:36 AM

    I really liked hearing your perspective on this very relevant issue and I enjoyed how you brought other people's ideas or beliefs around Africans, while saying that what they are doing is very beneficial for the world.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 30, 2020 at 10:40 AM

    Your article makes a great point that is very helpful to the world as we are still in a pandemic. I think scientists haven't tried making cheaper and faster kits before because they haven't figured out a proper way to do so. However, Nigeria has, which is a great example of Africa's resilience.

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