A trial of this method may be about to start at a chain of hospitals in Baltimore as a direct result of this hackathon!
After seeing Dr. Desai (who is the Chief Medical Officer at Osmosis.org) on Rachel Maddow's show, I sent this hackathon project to him and he ended up featuring it on his YouTube Channel! He took my initial hackathon video, narrated it, and explained everything much better than I could have. I highly recommend watching his video as an upgraded replacement of my submission (and all his other videos which concisely explain the cutting edge of Covid-19 research): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ6fewjkqo4
On top of that, he connected me with the Chief Innovation Officer at LifeBridge Health. They control a large network of Baltimore hospitals and are now looking into starting a trial of batch testing with the primary purpose of daily screenings of their medical staff. I'll post updates if they (or any other labs) begin trials.
Many thanks to Dr. Desai, Osmosis.org, and LifeBridge Health for looking into this idea! And again to Setareh and Andre in the Devpost comments, I've been forwarding the research you send me to the appropriate people.
Also, here is a preliminary research paper of the ongoing trial in Israel: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.26.20039438v1
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