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Fast coronavirus tests: what they can and can’t do

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  • Giorgia Guglielmi

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Rapid antigen tests are designed to tell in a few minutes whether someone is infectious. Will they be game changers?

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  • Giorgia Guglielmi, 2020. "Fast coronavirus tests: what they can and can’t do," Nature, Nature, vol. 585(7826), pages 496-498, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:585:y:2020:i:7826:d:10.1038_d41586-020-02661-2
    DOI: 10.1038/d41586-020-02661-2
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    1. Fischer, Kai & Reade, J. James & Schmal, W. Benedikt, 2022. "What cannot be cured must be endured: The long-lasting effect of a COVID-19 infection on workplace productivity," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
    2. Dube, Kaitano & Nhamo, Godwell & Chikodzi, David, 2021. "COVID-19 pandemic and prospects for recovery of the global aviation industry," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    3. Tigist F. Menkir & Christl A. Donnelly, 2022. "The impact of repeated rapid test strategies on the effectiveness of at-home antiviral treatments for SARS-CoV-2," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-7, December.
    4. Ourania S. Kotsiou & Ioannis Pantazopoulos & Dimitrios Papagiannis & Evangelos C. Fradelos & Nikolaos Kanellopoulos & Dimitra Siachpazidou & Paraskevi Kirgou & Dimitra S. Mouliou & Athanasios Kyritsis, 2021. "Repeated Antigen-Based Rapid Diagnostic Testing for Estimating the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Prevalence from the Perspective of the Workers’ Vulnerability before and during the Lockdown," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(4), pages 1-12, February.
    5. Alla Slynko, 2022. "Asymptotic analysis of reliability measures for an imperfect dichotomous test," Statistical Papers, Springer, vol. 63(4), pages 995-1012, August.
    6. Kai Fischer & J. James Reade & W. Benedikt Schmal, 2021. "The Long Shadow of an Infection: COVID-19 and Performance at Work," Economics Discussion Papers em-dp2021-17, Department of Economics, University of Reading.

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