While the rapid tests might not catch every infection, experts say they should detect the most contagious cases. Everyone else would proactively take rapid tests, using them as a potential indicator of infection. But the agency is loath to open the floodgates to rapid tests performed completely at home. Already, some states don’t report positive antigen test results, resulting in an incomplete portrait of the disease’s spread. there’s boxes of rapid tests that we chose not to use,” said Matt Cady, practice administrator at Adult Medicine of Lake County.

Source: Washington Post August 29, 2020 16:05 UTC