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    Want to bring back major sports events and concerts? The answer may lie in a mouthwash test for COVID

    Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. The test arrived in the mail in early November. I took it on a Wednesday, then mailed off my sample to Vienna for processing. On Friday, I received an email with a link to my results: negative. I didn’t have the symptoms anyway, apart from fatigue—a common symptom of having an early rising toddler—but given the fact that many carriers remain asymptomatic, it was good to confirm I didn’t have COVID-19. The test in question came from an Austrian startup called testFRWD, one of the many companies trying to solve…

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