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VANCOUVER A swab up the nose and gargling salt water are two of the ways people are now tested for COVID-19 in B.C., but researchers have been working on a fast and non-invasive option that would involve giving a breath sample. Interventional respirologist Dr. Renelle Myers – who works at Vancouver General Hospital and BC Cancer and is also a clinician scientist at the BC Cancer Research Institute – told CTV News Vancouver her team had been preparing to study using breath samples for the early detection of lung cancer. When the pandemic hit, we knew the potential of breath, and thought let s change gears and see if we can diagnose COVID-19 through breath analysis, because it would provide a very rapid, non-invasive way to do it, she said, and added their work in relation to lung cancer will continue.
Posted: Feb 18, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 18
Vancouver-based respirologist Dr. Renelle Myers and her team of researchers are working on developing a rapid COVID-19 breath test.(Tina Lovgreen/CBC)
Researchers in B.C. are working on developing a breath test for COVID-19 that if successful, could provide results in less than one minute.
The test could theoretically be rolled out in the community at airports, schools, arenas and other venues, said Dr. Renelle Myers, an interventional respirologist at Vancouver General Hospital and B.C. Cancer Research Centre who is leading the team at Vancouver Coastal Health developing the test. Our goal is to get society back where it needs to be and bring people together again but safely and confidently with accurate, quick tests, said Myers.