The FDA granted its first emergency authorization for a rapid antibody blood test for COVID-19, developed by Cellex, allowing people to gauge a person’s immune response to the novel coronavirus. The ...

The US and other countries are scrambling to test hundreds of thousands of people to see if they are infected by the coronavirus. That test, which employs a technique called PCR, looks directly for ...

The FDA has warned COVID-19 serological test-makers not to overstate the usefulness – or claim federal approval – of their products, cautioning that it may still be too early for such diagnostics to ...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, both viral and antibody testing have raised significant challenges for the government and private sector. As both federal and state officials wrestle with decisions ...

In the scurry to track, isolate and otherwise beat back the global coronavirus pandemic, testing people for traces of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is a high priority. But a different ...

Molecular test, or nucleic acid amplification, has been recommended by the FDA for the diagnosis of the COVID-19 virus. Nucleic acid amplification testing necessitates the collection of respiratory ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Minnesota health leaders say one COVID-19 test may not hold the answers you expect. A month ago, Gov. Tim Walz announced a "Minnesota Moonshot: A system that would test up to ...

As more and more COVID-19 data are collected, the clearer our picture of the novel disease becomes. One of the most important pieces of the puzzle (though we stress that it is nevertheless only one ...

Scientists are starting to roll out new blood tests for the coronavirus, a key development that, unlike the current diagnostic tests, will help pinpoint people who are immune and reveal the full scope ...

STATE LEADERS ARE NOW COMMITTING TO INCREASING COVID-19 SEROLOGY TESTING. KCCI’S CHRIS GOTHNER IS LIVE AT THE STATEHOUSE TO TELL US ABOUT THE STATE’S PLANS AND HOW SEROLOGY TESTING WORKS. CHRIS THIS ...

ELLICOTT CITY, MD (WBFF) - On Thursday, County Executive Calvin Ball announced Howard County’s strategy to better understand the scope of COVID-19 spread among the population through serology testing.