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Mologic awarded circa £1 million by Wellcome Trust and DFID to develop the rapid diagnostic test.

For most people, COVID-19 test entails a swab up the nose in a doctor’s office or at a drive-in site. The sample then goes out to a lab. Results come back within a few days to a week—a waiting period that’s simply too long to stop the spread of the virus on a wide scale. To contain the COVID-19 pandemic, we need more frequent testing with faster turnaround times. Recent testing advances, and a move by the FDA, could help bring rapid in-home tests to market. Image credit: Shutterstock/Pordee_Aomboon. That default approach to testing may soon change. On July 29, the US Food and Drug Administr...

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Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk questioned the accuracy of COVID-19 tests on Thursday after claiming that results showed he tested positive twice and then negative twice all on the same day.

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“None of the tests we have validated would meet the criteria for a good test," said the University of Oxford's Sir John Bell, citing many false positive and false negative results, and describing an accurate test as potentially weeks away.

The U.K. government is launching a national research program, in collaboration with a number of universities, NHS trusts and medical research groups, to evaluate new coronavirus diagnostic tests and how well they perform in different settings.

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The effort to defeat the coronavirus relies on many layers of defence. Or, let's call them, slices of cheese. One thing that has really irked me during Covid-19 has been the labelling of any mistake in our systems or any unexpected transmission of the virus as a failure. Yes, I understand that th

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Some public health experts hope the growing availability of faster, cheaper tests could lead to a new strategy of widespread testing — one that could finally get the pandemic under control.

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This Viewpoint compares manual and digital strategies for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) contact tracing, describes how countries in Asia and Europe have used smartphone tracking, and discusses privacy and discrimination concerns and strategies for balancing public health and civil liberties in...