
What Next TBD: Are We Getting COVID Testing All Wrong?
Slate Technology
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Is a Rapid Antigen Test More Accurate?
The conversation has been 100 % dominated by physicians and clinical laboratory directors who are completely focused on medical diagnostics. They want a test that's going to just like a forensic detective wants a to get to detect even small molecules ofo hair at a crime scene or blood at a crime site. But if our goal is instead to identify people who currently are transmitting the virus to other people, then actually the rapid test is much more accurate. It's very, very sensitive to detect viro loads that are infectious.
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