Babylon Healthcare Services Ltd. has offered to pay for its UK employees to take Covid-19 antibody tests if they agree to share the results with the British telemedicine provider, raising concerns about medical privacy.
The startup will use the same pin-prick blood test kits that it sells to consumers to monitor kidney and liver functions, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation.
A Babylon spokeswoman declined to disclose where the tests are being conducted, but said the test has “99% specificity and 95% sensitivity." Babylon “realizes how critical testing is to fighting Covid-19 and we hope to use any capacity and capabilities we have to assist," the spokeswoman said.