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Nevada directs nursing homes to stop using rapid COVID-19 tests after high rates of false-positives

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Nevada health officials order nursing homes to STOP using rapid COVID-19 tests after finding 60% of positive results were false In August 2020, nursing homes in Nevada were sent two rapid antigen COVID-19 tests: the Quidel Sofia II and the BD Veritor Plus Unlike nasal swab tests that detect the genetic material of the virus, these … Read more

At-home coronavirus tests could trigger high rates of false-positives

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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