Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matt Binnicker is the CSO for Mayo Collaborative Services. There are now over 40 antigen tests that have received emergency use ...

The BinaxNOW COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test is an FDA-approved at-home test kit. It can detect active infections with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in ...

Molecular tests are far superior to rapid antigen tests—and now you can get them for home use. Last week, I was about to go on a date, and because I'm severely immunocompromised, we agreed he would ...

Countries straining to contain a second wave of COVID-19 are turning to faster, cheaper but less accurate tests to avoid the delays and shortages that have plagued efforts to diagnose and trace those ...

A study led by Osaka University recently found that the sensitivity of rapid antigen tests (RATs) for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 when compared with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests was 0.63 ...

Some 50% of people who test positive for Covid-19 on a rapid test after five days of infection are likely no longer contagious, a Journal of the American Medical Association study released on ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) -A Mayo Clinic expert is urging people to use at-home COVID-19 tests only as directed. According to a release from Mayo Clinic, while online claims suggest that a throat swab ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and collaborating institutions report that a rapid antigen test for SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—proved highly accurate when compared to the ...

(WJW)-As homes across the country begin receiving the free at-home COVID-19 antigen tests, a new warning is being issued about a potential hazard. According to Poison Control, the extraction vial in ...

In a recent study posted to the Lancet preprint* server, researchers assessed the utility of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) rapid antigen testing (RAT) for patient triage ...

To quickly confirm an asymptomatic case of COVID-19, a second rapid test within an hour of a positive result can boost the accuracy of the result from 38 percent to 92 percent, according to a new ...