Most existing COVID-19 tests "rely on the same principle, which is that you have accumulated a detectable amount of viral material, for example, in your nose," says study lead author Frank Zhang, who ...

NASHVILLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A manuscript detailing an extensive analysis completed by Aegis Sciences Corporation and Walgreens was published in PLOS ONE yesterday. The manuscript, Validation of ...

Despite widespread adoption of surveillance testing for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) among staff members in skilled nursing facilities, evidence is limited regarding its relationship with ...

It’s the fifth summer of Covid, and most people seem eager to move on. We want to understand the pervasiveness of the ignorance-is-bliss attitude. By Emily Baumgaertner Covid cases are surging, but in ...

As COVID-19 variant EG.5, nicknamed “Eris,” continues to spread across the U.S., it’s important to be prepared ahead of a possible infection by stocking up on the best at-home COVID tests. So once ...

A new quick testing method for COVID-19 has been developed by scientists at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi. It is an adhesive bandage that depends on gold nanoparticles to rapidly detect the ...

University of Pretoria provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. In March 2020, weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, its director-general ...

At-home Covid tests can be ordered for free starting Monday. Households can now order four free tests for home delivery at COVIDTests.gov. According to the government website, orders will begin ...

A Statistical Immune Correlates of Protection Model for Predicting Efficacy from Neutralizing Antibody Titers to Establish Immunobridging of ...

The United States government has discontinued its free at-home COVID-19 test program after four years. The program, which began in 2021, shipped over 900 million tests directly to U.S. households.