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Best of 2021: Are We Getting COVID Testing All Wrong?

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

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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. And so they want a test that's going to e just like a forensic detective wants a to get to detect even small molecules of of hair at a crime scene, andt use piciar to do that. But if our goal is instead to identify people who currently are transmitting the devirus to other people, then actually the rapid test is much more accurate. They are only going to turn positive when youare actually actively transmitting the virus.

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