Pentagon scientists working in a secret association have created a microchip that is inserted under the skin and can detect Covid-19 before an infected person feels symptoms.
60 Minutes interviewed retired Colonel Matt Hepburn, an army infectious disease doctor who worked for years at the secret defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, working on technologies that he hopes will make COVID-19 the last pandemic.
"Dr. Hepburn showed us some current projects that sound like they're from a Star Trek episode. Consider a ship like the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which was stranded last year when 1,271 crew members tested positive for the coronavirus. What if everyone on board were monitoring their health with this subcutaneous implant, which is now in the late stage of testing? It's not some terrible government microchip that tracks your every move, but a tissue gel created to continuously test your blood, " said 60 Minutes host Bill Whitaker.
Dr. Hepburn said the microchip is like an " engine check light bulb."
"There's this tiny green thing that you put under your skin, and it tells you that there are chemical reactions going on inside your body, and that signal means you'll have symptoms tomorrow," he said.
Dr. Hepburn said DARPA has also created a filter that will be passed through a person's blood to remove the Covid virus: "It removes the virus and returns the blood."
At the moment, doctors have used this filter to treat 300 seriously ill patients.
The Pentagon said that the government does not seek to track your every move with microchips.
Chipping is the ravings of madmen, the skeptics said
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