HHS Signals that the End of the PHE Is Near
Last week, CMS announced that it was eliminating certain waivers and regulatory flexibility it provided when the COVID-19 pandemic began.
FDA Releases Latest List of Authorized At-Home OTC COVID-19 Tests
With coverage of over-the-counter (OTC) COVID-19 tests set to expand to include those covered by Medicare, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released its most up-to-date list of authorized at-home test kits for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes...
Will We Be Better Prepared for the Next Pandemic?
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...
Is Repeated SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Testing More Accurate?
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...