A Way Out

John Wallbank
5 min readMay 1, 2020

How the right coronavirus test will allow us to resume activities long before a vaccine

You ever come up with a trillion-dollar idea? That’s the amount a good COVID-19 test would save the US economy each month. On April 29th, the National Institutes of Health announced that $500M of their recent $1.5B federal stimulus funding will go to proposals from scientists and inventors that apply to their Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) program. More info can be found at NIH’s Point-of-Care Technology Research Network (POCTRN) site, where you can also…

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John Wallbank

Former counselor, now a screenwriter and social science researcher specializing in cross-fertilized innovation. Founder of Pure Hybrid Media LLC.