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Coronavirus breathalyzer

So, you know how sometimes you get sick and have to go to the doctor to get checked out? Well, there's something called the coronavirus that has been making a lot of people sick lately.

But, like a lot of things, doctors and scientists have been working hard to find ways to help keep people healthy and safe. One thing they're doing is trying to make something called a breathalyzer that can tell if you have the coronavirus just by breathing into it!

A breathalyzer is like a little machine that can tell if you've been drinking alcohol by checking your breath. And a coronavirus breathalyzer works in a similar way. When you breathe into it, the machine can tell if you have tiny bits of the coronavirus in your breath.

This way, doctors and scientists can quickly figure out who has the virus and who doesn't, without having to do things like take your temperature or stick a swab up your nose!

If they know who has the virus, they can help those people get better faster and help stop the virus from spreading to other people. So, the coronavirus breathalyzer is a really helpful tool in the fight against the coronavirus!