Coronavirus Update 98: Rapid COVID 19 Antigen Testing at Home - A Possible Breakthrough

Professor Roger Seheult, MD discusses the current COVID-19 testing strategy in the United States that the CDC estimates picks up less than 10% of infections. Dr. Seheult of MedCram.com features snippets from a recent This Week in Virology (Episode 640) with Dr. Michael Mina of Harvard who explains that the technology exists for at home, inexpensive, self-administered, "paper" COVID-19 antigen tests that are likely accurate enough to pick up the vast majority of infectious cases of COVID-19. And how lower sensitivity of inexpensive tests may be ideal for a screening test that is performed with high frequency. Utilization of these "daily quick tests" may provide the optimal path forward to curtail the growth of COVID-19 and open schools and our economy in a much safer way. (This video was recorded July 20, 2020).

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See a MedCram Q/A follow up to this video with Dr. Michael Mina: https://youtu.be/cP-MHKU_cQE
Dr. Mina speaks more about COVID-19 testing responds to questions from the comment section below.

This Week in Virology Episode 640 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDj4Zyq3yOA

NEJM | https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc2001737

NYU Study on Abbott ID Now | https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.11.089896v1.full.pdf

New York Times | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/opinion/coronavirus-tests.html

Test Sensitivity is Secondary to Frequency (Dr. Mina) | https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.20136309v2

Abbott ID Now | https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/product-and-innovation/how-id-now-tackles-covid-19.html

CNN Test Costs | https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/health/coronavirus-test-cost/index.html

Johns Hopkins Tracker | https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Live Science | https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-should-schools-reopen-fall.html

Korean CDC | https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=0030

Washington Post | https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/long-delays-in-getting-test-results-hobble-coronavirus-response/2020/07/12/d32f7fa8-c1fe-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html

Reuters | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-questdiagnostics-outlook/quest-says-many-u-s-covid-19-tests-taking-more-than-a-week-idUSKCN24E1CE

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