Scientists develop rapid blood test to identify patients at highest risk of severe Covid-19The scientists ...
(World News Science)

Scientists have developed a rapid blood test that can predict within a day of hospitalisation which patients with Covid-19 are at the highest risk of severe complications or death, an advance that may help identify those who may best benefit from specific investigational treatments. The test, described in the journal JCI Insight, measures levels of mitochondrial DNA -- a unique type of genetic material that normally resides inside the energy factories of cells. According to the researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis in the US, mitochondrial DNA spilling out of cells and into the bloodstream indicates that a type of violent...