Is it time to allow consumers to do at-home testing for influenza? Given the already-raging influenza season—flu-related hospitalizations doubled the week of Nov. 20 compared to a week earlier, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the STAT medical news site raised an interesting question about why at-home flu tests were not available. That […]
December 12, 2022, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 - December 12, 2022 Issue
- Tags: at-home testing, Brad Moore, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19, Dave Sanford, eMed, Epredia, Influenza, Johnson and Johnson, Journal of Clinical Virology, LifeScan Canada, Michael Mina MD, roche diagnostics, Sanford Health, STAT, Thermo Fisher Scientific, US Food and Drug Administration, Valley News Live, virtually-proctored at-home COVID-19 test
