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The Food and Drug Administration issued an alert Thursday warning that a common COVID-19 diagnostic test could be giving inaccurate results.
President Donald Trump recently touted Abbott Labs' ID NOW point-of-care test, which is used by hospitals across the country, as the test used to screen him and those around him.
The FDA issued an emergency use authorization for the test, which can deliver results in five to 13 minutes, in March.
But the test has recently come under fire after studies have indicated that it produces too many false negatives. A small study this week from NYU Langone Health found that the Abbott test returned false negatives for nearly 50 percent of certain samples that a rival test had found to be positive. The study has not been peer reviewed. In response, Abbott said that the results are not consistent with other studies and that the sample size was very small.
https://news.yahoo.com/fda-says-abbott-covid-19-013932713.html
Everything Trump touches dies.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)cos dem
(903 posts)Along with the "ewww" feeling.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)TwistedTinkerbelle
(137 posts)But I guess 85% is a good ballpark number for this adminstration.
[link:https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/21/838794281/study-raises-questions-about-false-negatives-from-quick-covid-19-test|
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)We'll hear about it over the weekend from those famous anonymous sources.
Vinca
(50,278 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)on how to lessen the chance of catching the Coronavirus..... OH wait there is!