The current COVID-19 pandemic exposed just how unprepared the world was to handle such a biological threat on a massive scale. One key contributor to that lack of preparedness was the reactionary approach most governments took to biological threats, failing to provide...
Thanks to COVID-19, it’s no longer a secret to the general public just how important diagnostic testing services are to managing infectious disease outbreaks, as well as to many aspects of health care. A report released March 23 shows that the demand for testing...
While real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) testing is the current gold standard for diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2, rapid antigen testing has emerged as an important alternative for screening asymptomatic people. Rapid antigen testing...