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NewsColony US Military scientists working on germ warfare make COVID-19 test US military scientists are developing a new kind of blood test for coronavirus that could detect infection before symptoms begin, according to a report by The Guardian.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is collaborating with scientists at several US universities to make a screening tool to fill the gap between nasal swabs used to detect people currently sick with COVID-19 and antibodies to detect those who have already been infected and may be immune.   It came as a result of a retooling of a program that was launched to develop a test to quickly identify when military members had been exposed to biological weapons.   Mt Sinai School of Medicine, one of DARPA’s research partners, declined to specify what kind of test it’s developing, but the test has the potential to diagnose coronavirus within 24 hours of infection, according to The Guardian.  The ...