The FDA Has Been Way Too Slow on At-Home COVID-19 Testing
With antigen testing, the U.S. could have been well on its way toward crushing the pandemic by now.
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COVID-19 Infections in U.S. Are About 10 Times Greater Than Reported Cases, Says Study
About 40 percent of infected persons show no symptoms but may still transmit disease.
Trump Is Wrong: Spreading Epidemic Is Responsible for Most of the Rise in COVID-19 Cases
Cases per 1,000 tests are rising in the majority of states.
COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing Is About To Really Rev Up
Cheap, rapid antigen tests may be on the way—and the FDA has finally approved test pooling.
To Get Americans Safely Back to Work and Play, We Need Cheap and Plentiful At-home COVID-19 Testing
Enable people to act responsibly toward their neighbors and co-workers.
COVID-19 Herd Immunity Is Much Closer Than Antibody Tests Suggest, Say 2 New Studies
If the findings are true, that's really great news.
COVID-19 Pool Testing Is a Stopgap Measure To Track and Curb the Pandemic
It could quickly amplify coronavirus testing by tenfold.
To Really Reopen the Economy, At-Home Diagnostic COVID-19 Tests Are Our Best Bet
Making cheap tests widely available would go a long way toward crushing the pandemic.
New CRISPR Coronavirus Test Could Be a Pandemic 'Game-Changer'
Cheap accurate testing would enable the safe reopening of the U.S. economy.
Trump's COVID-19 Testing Blueprint Is Another Attempt to Avoid Responsibility
Also included is an "alternative facts" narrative of federal government testing screw-ups since January.
A Harvard Plan To Use Massive COVID-19 Testing To Reopen the Economy
This proposal might work, but it's doubtful that our politicians and president are competent enough to pull it off.
COVID-19 'Immunity Passports' Could Be a Good Idea
Why not let recovered coronavirus patients out of lockdown?
FDA Tells At-Home Diagnostics Companies To Stop Coronavirus Test Roll-Outs
The companies are complying. Customers won't get their results and are being told to destroy their test kits.
Massive Coronavirus Testing Is the Way to Help Save the Economy
No time to waste; do it sooner rather than later.
FDA Should Get Out of the Way of At-Home COVID-19 Testing
Private-sector efforts to fill the testing vacuum run afoul of bureaucracy.
Donald Trump Declares 'We Will Ultimately and Expeditiously Defeat This Virus'
In two weeks we will know if his public health measures are too little, too late.
How Government Red Tape Stymied Testing and Made the Coronavirus Epidemic Worse
FDA and CDC bureaucrats stopped private and academic diagnostic tests from being deployed.
Did the Trump Administration Overpromise 1 Million COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests by the End of This Week?
The FDA has finally approved commercial diagnostic tests.
Much Hyped Theranos Diagnostics: Is It Vaporware?
Even worse, CEO Holmes evidently wants the FDA to regulate competing products
How Cutting-Edge Medicine Might Have Spared Us the Ebola Epidemic
The promise of technical end-runs around government ineptitude