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5-19-2021
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Some experts have promoted the use of rapid testing for COVID-19. However, with the current technologies available, continuing to replace laboratory-based, real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction tests with rapid (point-of-care) tests may lead to an increased number of false negative tests. Moreover, the more rapid dissemination of false negative results that can occur with the use of rapid tests for COVID-19 may lead to increased spread of the novel coronavirus if patients do not understand the concept of false negative tests. One means of combatting this would be to tell patients who have a “negative” rapid COVID-19 test that their test result was “indeterminate.”
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Zitek, MD, Tony and Fraiman, MD, Joseph B. B., "Ending the Pandemic: Are Rapid COVID-19 Tests a Step Forward or Back?" (2021). Coronavirus Research at FIU. 84.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/covid-19_research/84
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