Apple awards $10 million to help accelerate supply of COVID-19 sample collection kits for hospitals

Apple:

Apple today announced it is awarding $10 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a market leader in sample collection kits that play a critical role in COVID-19 testing. This funding will allow COPAN Diagnostics to rapidly accelerate their supply of sample collection kits for hospitals across the United States, expanding production from several thousand today to more than one million kits per week by early July.

What I really found fascinating (emphasis mine):

As part of this effort, Apple will support COPAN Diagnostics’ expansion to a new, larger facility in Southern California, with advanced equipment that Apple is helping design.

Makes me wonder if we’ll see Apple branded health hardware (beyond Apple Watch) in the future.

Not to minimize Apple’s efforts here in any way. This is great work that benefits us all.