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People turning to online workouts after global pandemic forces gym closures.  

Nurx, Carbon Health and Everlywell have officially halted their mail-order testing-kit services. But at least one startup is still moving to secure an Emergency Use Authorization for its at-home rapid serology diagnostic.

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.

The temporary policy also extends to some clinical decision support software used in conjuction with these remote monitor devices.

Digital health investors discuss the opportunity, responsibility and liability of investing in health tech during market volatility and a possible recession.

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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.