(WXYZ) — Now that the government is offering free COVID-19 testing kits to all Americans, many may have questions about how accurate these tests are and when they ...

If I am convinced that my patient has COVID and the test comes back negative, we will leave that patient in isolation until we can repeat that RT-PCR test, just to make sure we’re not exposing our ...

There are three different ways to test for COVID-19: PCR tests, antigen tests and antibody tests. Each method is best for a different stage of COVID-19 infection. Used in sequence, all three methods ...

About The Study: Researchers compared the accuracy of rapid antigen tests with reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests in detecting SARS-CoV-2 infection among 723 college ...

In a recent study posted to the Lancet preprint* server, researchers assessed the utility of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) rapid antigen testing (RAT) for patient triage ...

A PCR test is often considered the gold standard for detecting coronavirus infection. It’s the test some employers want employees to take before returning to work after having Covid-19, and the one ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* server, a team of researchers investigated how antigen concentration and viral load in different specimen types affected the performance of severe acute ...

Siemens Healthineers on Wednesday announced the launch of a rapid antigen test kit in Europe to detect coronavirus infections, but warned that the industry may struggle to meet a surge in demand.

Countries straining to contain a second wave of COVID-19 are turning to faster, cheaper but less accurate tests to avoid the delays and shortages that have plagued efforts to diagnose and trace those ...

The government is offering free COVID-19 testing kits to all Americans, many may have questions about how accurate these tests are. Both the PCR and Antigen tests can detect an active case of COVID-19 ...