If I am convinced that my patient has COVID and the test comes back negative, we will leave that patient in isolation until we can repeat that RT-PCR test, just to make sure we’re not exposing our ...

Though pooling samples for SARS-CoV-2 detection has effectively met the need for rapid diagnostic and screening tests, many factors can influence the sensitivity of a pooled test. In this study, we ...

In a recent study published in Lancet Microbe, researchers compare the potential of real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) genotyping assays with whole-genome sequencing ...

As we get into another winter holiday season, COVID is still part of our lives. And although it's hard to predict exactly what this year's cold, flu and coronavirus season will look like, experts want ...

When COVID first hit, waiting days for laboratory results from an ultrasensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test was commonplace. Faster tests usable by anyone, anywhere, later became widely ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has been perceived mainly as a dangerous acute outbreak of infection that killed more than a million people in the United States and 7 million worldwide. 1,2 However, in the ...

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which resulted from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection at the end of 2019, posed significant challenges to ...