WASHINGTON—The National Institutes for Health hopes to have a new type of immediate-result Covid-19 diagnostic test available this fall for use by university and school students and perhaps also by professional athletes, the agency’s director told a Senate panel Thursday. NIH Director Francis Collins said the agency’s goal will be to “have an additional one million tests per day available” by this fall through an experimental NIH program seeking to develop new kinds of Covid-19 diagnostic tests. Now, roughly 500,000 diagnostic...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 02, 2020 17:15 UTC