Routine screening of people who don't know they have COVID-19 could transform the fight against the disease, according to experts.
Several testing experts, including, said the FDA's move is a step in the right direction and could encourage companies to pursue inexpensive, rapid, at-home tests.
The template also outlines how accurate the tests must be, with slightly lower standards than lab-based tests. Similar rapid tests used to diagnose strep throat miss as many as one in five people who are infected, so physicians normally send a throat culture to a lab to confirm the diagnosis, said Dr. Emily Volk, president-elect of the College of American Pathologists. Such confirmatory testing usually takes several days.
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