More than two years after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the emergency phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, the virus continues to circulate globally. While current data suggest ...

QuidelOrtho's Sofia 2 SARS Antigen+ FIA test returns results within 10 minutes. Once each test is complete, the Sofia 2 system automatically adds the de-identified results to the company's Virena data ...

A prospective cohort study has found that repeat testing in 48-hour intervals with a rapid antigen test (Ag-RDT) may be required to rule out SARS-CoV-2 infection. This means that people testing for ...

Flu season has begun uncharacteristically early this year, and so far we've seen around 187,000 laboratory-confirmed cases, 1,323 hospitalizations, and 113 deaths. The risk of infection from either ...

Rapid antigen testing has emerged as a crucial pillar in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, offering a rapid, cost-effective, and decentralised means of detecting active SARS-CoV-2 ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers overviewed the impact of rapid antigen tests (RDT) use cases (for surveillance; testing, tracing, and isolation [TTI]) with and ...

You developed a fever and went to the hospital for an influenza test, but the result was negative.However, when you were ...

The question quickly arose whether existing rapid antigen tests could detect newly emerging variants. Using clinical samples obtained from diagnostic labs throughout the U.S. from 2020 to 2023, the ...

Among oil-rig workers, shipping crews, and other groups of people who work closely together, COVID-19 can spread like wildfire. Yet trying to prevent spread with long quarantines can be just as ...

Experts discuss what it might mean if you get a faint line on a home COVID-19 test, when to take another test and what precautions to take.