Coronavirus testing is 'a mess' in the US, report says

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Right now, testing is not accurate enough to use alone to make most decisions, including who should go back to work or to school, experts say

Coronavirus testing in the United States is disorganized and needs coordination at the national level, infectious disease experts said in a new report released Wednesday.

"The data is really kind of screwed up," Osterholm said."It's because the public health system is overwhelmed." The report also says that antibody tests should be used only with caution. These tests check the blood for evidence of an immune response to the virus, and indicate that someone has been infected for some days or has even cleared an infection. They are most useful for identifying donors of plasma used to treat patients or for deciding on how to manage patients when standard diagnostic tests are negative, the report says.

 

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