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Fact Check: Military-funded sensor can help detect COVID-19, but it’s not a microchip

The claim: A new Pentagon microchip can tell if you have COVID-19

A Facebook post with nearly 4,000 shares and reactions claims the Pentagon has developed a microchip implant, equipped with an antenna, capable of detecting a COVID-19 infection.

“What started off as a conspiracy theory has turned out to be surprisingly real,” reads the April 12 post from Russia Today, a page Facebook flags as state-controlled media. “Pentagon scientists have unveiled a microchip implant which can detect a Covid-19 infection. The chip, which is equipped with a small antenna, is meant to act like a ‘check engine’ light, catching asymptomatic cases of the disease.” 

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The claim comes after a “60 Minutes” segment posted online on April 11, which featured retired Col. Matthew Hepburn, a former military infectious disease physician who is now a project leader at the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense.

During the interview, Hepburn described a sensor that can detect if a person is getting sick, which has been in the making since 2016 and could be repurposed from its original use to help detect early cases of COVID-19 and other illnesses.

Sensor is inert, not a microchip

The Facebook post gets several details wrong.

The green sensor, which is smaller than a grain of rice, is not a microchip. It doesn’t have any metal or electronics, according to Profusa, the company that received $7.5 million in federal money in 2016 to develop the sensor. Their original goal was to monitor a combat soldier’s health in real-time in active combat zones.

The sensor, first publicized in 2018, is made of hydrogel similar to the tissue found around the arm, where the sensor is placed under the skin by injection, according to Profusa. It is under testing for potential military applications but is not yet in use, Hepburn said.

“Profusa’s technology is not a hydrogel chip that will connect you to the Internet,” Jared Adams, chief of communications for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency told USA TODAY in an email. “The Profusa hydrogel is inert, does not have any electrical components, and is of similar material to a contact lens or corneal implant.”

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The sensors contain light-emitting fluorescent molecules that identify and keep track of oxygen, glucose, lactate and other biomolecules in the body. If those increase or decrease, it could indicate the person is getting sick and might show symptoms soon.

Those changes are recorded through another device, a reader, worn on the skin’s surface or held by hand directly on top of the injected sensor. The reader sends signals through the skin to the sensor, which emits light signals with real time information about the biomolecules present.

The information collected by the reader is displayed on an encrypted phone application via Bluetooth, said Adams. Profusa said that data can be shared with health care providers as well.

Sensor not made for COVID-19 specifically 

The sensor can be used as a “check engine light,” Hepburn told “60 Minutes.” Once the person knows they might show symptoms soon, they can take a test or do a blood draw and see what illnesses their bodies are reacting to.

While the sensor doesn’t directly treat COVID-19 or any other disease, it can provide early detection that allows faster intervention and treatment.

“As you truncate that time, as you diagnose and treat, what you do is you stop the infection in its tracks,” said Hepburn. 

Our rating: Partly false

The claim that a sensor developed by Pentagon scientists is a microchip with an antenna that can detect COVID-19 is PARTLY FALSE, based on our research. The sensor is not a microchip, as it’s inert and doesn’t have any metal that could relay personal information to other devices. And it was developed by a private company, though using federal funding. The chip also doesn’t directly detect COVID-19, but it can relay information about changes in molecules that could indicate the presence of COVID-19 or other diseases. 

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The fake ‘Covid cases’ were secured by a PCR test that its inventor Kary Mullis said could not tell if you were sick and used very high amplification that was bound to elicit fake ‘positives’ by being triggered by genetic material nothing to do with ‘Covid’. Fake ‘cases’ were further secured by diagnosing other illness as ‘Covid-19’ including other forms of respiratory disease. This is why cases of flu (with ‘flu-like symptoms’) disappeared worldwide when ‘Covid-19’ (with ‘flu-like symptoms’) was hoaxed on the scene. Fake deaths from ‘Covid’ were manipulated by the insane policy of putting ‘Covid-19’ on the death certificate of anyone who tested positive with a test not testing for the ‘virus’ who died from any other cause within 28 days (sometimes more) of the fake ‘test’. People dying from falling down the stairs, road accidents, even gunshot wounds, were officially designated ‘Covid’ deaths by this blatant sleight of hand. Hospitals in the US were given massive financial incentives to diagnose ‘Covid’ – $4,600 for diagnosing regular pneumonia; $13,000 for ‘Covid’ pneumonia; and $39,000 for anyone they put on a ventilator that would almost certainly kill them (and have ‘Covid-19’ on their death certificate). Add to this the scandal of Remdesivir which Fauci imposed on hospitals for those testing positive with a test not testing for the ‘virus’ which was well known to cause multiple organ failure including the kidneys leading to the abdominal cavity and lungs filling with fluid that caused respiratory failure that was designated ‘Covid-19’. Add further the use of the end-of-life drug Midazolam that prematurely killed thousands of old people in care homes that was presented to the public as ‘the first wave of Covid’. From this – and I could say so much more – comes this question: WHERE’S THE BLOODY ‘VIRUS’?