It has emerged that scientists working within the Pentagon are using a secretive unit that was set up at the height of the Cold War to create a microchip that can be inserted under the skin, which will detect COVID-19 infection. The scientists claim that this microchip can, via a filter, remove the virus from the blood when attached to a dialysis machine.
UNN’s Oliver Down understands that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have been working for years on preventing and ending pandemics. The microchip is likely to spark concerns about a government agency implanting a microchip in a citizen.
Retired Colonel Matt Hepburn who is an army infectious disease physician is leading DARPA’s response to the pandemic. He has shown the 60 Minutes the microchip. He has said: ‘You put it underneath your skin and what that tells you is that there are chemical reactions going on inside the body, and that signal means you are going to have symptoms tomorrow’.
He also said that that the device was inspired by a struggle to stem the virus onboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, where 1,271 crew members tested positive for the coronavirus. Colonel Hepburn has said ‘Sailors would get the signal, then self-administer a blood draw and test themselves on site. We can have that information in three to five minutes. As you truncate that time, as you diagnose and treat, what you do is you stop the infection in its tracks’.
Many will be hugely sceptical of this new invention.
Current Affairs Correspondent | My name is Oliver Down I am 22, and a staunch brexiteer. I am a Bristolian lad who studied politics in Leicester. I believe in free speech and accurate journalism and I won’t be afraid to give you “the other side” of the story!
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