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Rapid coronavirus tests: a guide for the perplexed

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  • Giorgia Guglielmi

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Scientists still debate whether millions of cheap, fast diagnostic kits will help control the pandemic. Here’s why.

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  • Giorgia Guglielmi, 2021. "Rapid coronavirus tests: a guide for the perplexed," Nature, Nature, vol. 590(7845), pages 202-205, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:590:y:2021:i:7845:d:10.1038_d41586-021-00332-4
    DOI: 10.1038/d41586-021-00332-4
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    1. Zuzana Dankova & Elena Novakova & Maria Skerenova & Veronika Holubekova & Vincent Lucansky & Dana Dvorska & Dusan Brany & Zuzana Kolkova & Jan Strnadel & Sandra Mersakova & Katarina Janikova & Marek S, 2021. "Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Detection by Rapid Antigen and by Three Commercial RT-qPCR Tests: A Study from Martin University Hospital in Slovakia," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(13), pages 1-16, July.
    2. Sanjay Jain & Jónas Oddur Jónasson & Jean Pauphilet & Barnaby Flower & Maya Moshe & Gianluca Fontana & Sutharsan Satkunarajah & Richard Tedder & Myra McClure & Hutan Ashrafian & Paul Elliott & Wendy S, 2021. "A new combination testing methodology to identify accurate and economical point-of-care testing strategies," Economics Series Working Papers 958, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    3. Joshua S. Gans, 2022. "Test sensitivity for infection versus infectiousness of SARS‐CoV‐2," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 43(6), pages 1880-1887, September.
    4. Marc Diederichs & Timo Mitze & Felix Schulz & Klaus Wälde, 2021. "Testing & Opening in Augustusburg. A Success Story?," Working Papers 2109, Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

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    SARS-CoV-2; Virology; Immunology;
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