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Some coronavirus tests could return false-positive results for 47 percent of samples, a study abstract from China suggests. ‘In the close contacts of COVID-19 patients, nearly half or even more of the ‘asymptomatic infected individuals’ reported in the active nucleic acid test screening might be false positives, wrote the authors from Jiaotong University in Xi’an, … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned American companies against shipping at-home coronavirus testing kits, despite relaxing its approval process for diagnostics for the virus sweeping the nation and globe. It comes after several companies, including Silicon Valley biotech start-ups like Nurx and Carbon Health began developing their own at-home sample collection sets. … Read more
A digital health Texas-based company is rolling out an at-home testing kit for coronavirus starting next week. Everlywell, which offers a variety of at-home lab tests for everything from vitamin deficiency to cholesterol levels to fertility, will make the kit available on March 23. After the delay in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … Read more
A shortage of test kits for coronavirus has triggered fury and frustration among Americans as the infection has spread with alarming speed through the US. Now, new tests and types of tests are being produced and quickly rushed into use by local public health labs, universities, and private companies in the wake of the Trump … Read more