Forbes March 22, 2020
Would you rather have COVID-19 causing coronavirus test results in 45 minutes or a few days?
If your answer is 45 minutes then you may be happy to see a new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcement about a new rapid test. But don’t rapidly jump to conclusions just yet before you hear of the details behind this emergency use authorization (EUA) approval.
The FDA has granted EUA to Cepheid for their Xpert® Xpress SARS-CoV-2 test. This is a rapid molecular diagnostic test that can detect the presence of the COVID-19 causing coronavirus. How rapid is rapid? How about returning results in 45 minutes?
That’s about a fifth of the length of the Academy Awards telecast and only about...
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