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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Airport mini-spa company <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/xpresspa">XpresSpa</a> will launch a pilot program offering <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/covid-19">COVID-19</a> testing at J<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/jfk-airport">FK Airport in New York</a>.</li><li>The company said it's working with other <keyword id="43661" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="airports">airports</keyword> to convert spa locations into testing centers.</li><li>Companies are scrambling to develop health screening solutions for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/airports">airports</a>, stadiums, and businesses as lockdowns are lifted during the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/coronavirus">pandemic</a>. Companies with existing airport infrastructure have an advantage.</li></ul><keyword id="9272337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="xpresspa">XpresSpa</keyword> can be a handy stop at the airport if you need to pick up a neck pillow, a pair of earplugs for a red-eye, or if you want 15 minutes in a massage chair.Soon, it will have something else to offer: a <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> test.XpresSpa Group announced Friday that it would begin a pilot test of providing COVID-19 tests at JFK International Airport in New York. The company said it would launch a new brand — XpresCheck — which would operate under a subsidiary — XpresTest.The initial pilot will take place in JFK's Terminal 4, which saw 21.8 million passengers in 2018, making it among the nation's busiest.The company said that it would build a "new modular constructed testing facility within the terminal," rather than using its spa location — all of the company's airport locations have been temporarily closed because of the pandemic.Initially, tests will be available for airline and airport workers and contractors, as well as TSA officers and Customs and Border Patrol agents.As governments, public health officials, and airline executives explore options for testing workers and passengers, part of a larger effort to bring travel demand back without risking further spreading the disease, companies have been scrambling to find ways to lever ege their existing airport infrastructure.CLEAR, a biometric identification company that operates at numerous US airports and event venues, has also indicated that it was moving into the health screening arena. The company is introducing a product to link personal health information to verified IDs, allowing businesses to efficiently screen employees for COVID-19 before they return to workplaces.CLEAR has not announced any imminent plans to bring the program to airports, although its existing framework and cooperation with the TSA at airport screening checkpoints would make it a likely candidate.The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tsa-coronavirus-changes-airport-social-distance-2020-5">TSA is also widely expected to begin</a> performing temperature checks on passengers at airports.XpresSpa said it was working with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey — which manages the region's airports — to expand the pilot to additional locations, and that it was exploring converting airport spa shops to test sites in other regions.It was not immediately clear whether the testing would be for active virus, or for antibodies from past infections, nor whether rapid results would be available.Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/xpresspa-coronavirus-testing-airports-trial-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

Those little airport spa shops have a new service on their menus: COVID-19 tests

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/calm-app">Calm</a>, the popular relaxation app, backed by Aston Kutcher's Sound Ventures and Insight Venture Partners, raised $88 million in Series B funding - boosting its valuation to $1 billion, making it tech's first unicorn focused on meditation. </li><li>The funding round is led by TPG Growth with participation from Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and existing investors. </li><li>Calm said it has 40 million downloads worldwide, with one new user joining every second. The app also has over one million paid subscribers. </li></ul>The practice of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/meditation">meditation</a> has tripled in the US in recent years, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2018/201811_Yoga_Meditation.htm">according to the CDC</a>, and with it comes the tech industry's newest phenomenon: meditation and relaxation apps. On Wednesday, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/calm-app">meditation app Calm</a> announced it has raised $88 million in a Series B financing round - taking its current valuation to $1 billion and making it the first so-called unicorn startup focused on meditation. The funding round was led by TPG Growth with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), and existing investors Insight Venture Partners and Aston Kutcher's Sound Ventures. The round brings Calm's total funding to date to $116 million.Calm, which launched in 2012, aims to quell issues of the modern age including anxiety, stress, and insomnia. It's a crowded market with rival apps including Headspace, backed by LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and musician Jared Leto, and<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/muse-2-meditation-device-calms-my-anxiety-helps-sleep-2019-1"> special gadgets like the Muse meditation headset. </a>More so than many other types of subscription services vying for consumer dollars, meditation and mental wellbeing appears to be an area that consumers are comfortable paying for. Calm says it has well over 1 million paying subscribers and over 40 million downloads worldwide.Calm's 'Sleep Stories' feature offers subscribing listeners bedtime stories (for adults, per the company) read aloud by celebrities like Matthew McConaughey and painter Bob Ross. It also includes guided meditations and calming sounds, like pouring rain and white noise. "This financing will accelerate our mission to make the world healthier and happier, with international growth and an increased investment in content being top priorities," said Alex Tew, Calm co-founder and co-CEO, in a press release.In 2017, Calm was named Apple's iPhone App of the Year and has since become the top-grossing health and fitness app, <a href="https://www.appannie.com/en/apps/ios/top/united-states/health-and-fitness/iphone/">according to App Annie. </a>The company is also among the startups that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/57-tech-startups-vc-insiders-say-will-boom-in-2019-2019-1">VCs recently polled by Business Insider </a>flagged as poised to boom in 2019. The company said its revenue was quadrupled in 2018, and is on track to make $150 million this year. Calm plans to bring its meditation tools to wider audiences and invested $3 million last year in XpresSpa - the walk-in spa and salon stores found in many airports. Calm said it is also working with American Airlines, Sonos, and Uber.

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