Quick tests show value for stopping COVID’s spread, says an article on Nature.
Less effective than PCR testRapid coronavirus tests performed by hand-held test kits called antigen lateral-flow devices could bolster test-and-trace programs. But such tests are less effective at detecting infections than are slower, gold-standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.
Study conducted to analyze transmissionDavid Eyre and Tim Peto at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK, and their colleagues...
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