Pfizer offers $100m to buy Brisbane company behind app that diagnoses COVID

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Pfizer offers $100 million to buy a ResApp, a company that has invented a smartphone app it says can diagnose COVID-19 by listening to someone cough.

Pfizer has offered $100 million to buy a Brisbane-based company that has invented a smartphone app it says can diagnose COVID-19 by listening to someone cough.ResApp described the $100 million offer from Pfizer as "a game changer"ResApp CEO and managing director Tony Keating described the deal as a potential "game changer" for dealing with COVID-19.Pfizer is one of the world's largest bio-pharmaceutical companies.

Dr Keating said recent studies showed a 92 per cent success rate in diagnosing the virus, but more clinical trials were needed for it to gain regulatory approval."If you are truly asymptomatic, we are a similar accuracy to a rapid antigen test, so we do drop down to 50-60 per cent accurate in that case," Dr Keating said.

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Pfizer wants to diagnose covid now? What a surprise...🙄🤔😑😑😑 I'm sick of these leeches in corporations destroying the human experience. Where's my nuclear arsenal. Time for armageddon. Strike us now Zeus. All media staff, every politician, all government staff... end them.

Time to ditch the smartphone folks

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