Study in nursing homes shows rapid antigen testing could be a useful tool to identify contagious people at risk for transmitting SARS-CoV-2

Performance Evaluation of Serial SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Testing During a Nursing Home Outbreak – Annals of Internal Medicine

Editorial: Utility of Rapid Antigen Tests in Nursing Homes

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?? Despite lower positive agreement compared with RT-PCR, antigen test positivity had higher agreement with shedding of replication-competent virus. These results suggest that antigen testing could be a useful tool to rapidly identify contagious people. https://t.co/Dlw7ttLlSL pic.twitter.com/sGmfVIy02H

— Antibiotic Steward??Bassam Ghanem (@ABsteward) April 26, 2021