The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has developed a microchip that, when inserted underneath the skin, may detect COVID-19 in a patient’s blood.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) operates under the Pentagon and was tasked with taking “pandemics off the table,” retired Colonel Matt Hepburn, who leads the agency’s rapid vaccine effort, told CBS News’ “60 minutes” on Sunday.

Hepburn explained that the implant continuously tests a patient’s blood and could be used to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks, such as the one that occurred on the USS Theodore Roosevelt in April 2020.


“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,” Dr. Hepburn said. “It is like a ‘check engine’ light.”

DARPA also invented new ways to detect COVID-19 and treat it. The agency created a dialysis machine that helped a military spouse, also known as “Patient 16,” recover from a severe bout of the virus. The machine passes a patient’s blood through a filter, “takes the virus out, and puts the blood back in,” Hepburn told the Sunday program.

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Let they try it on me. Who knows they might be a genetic mutation, thereby transforming me to a superhero and I'll inturn give back to the society by saving Nigerians from this horrible PMB government