Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.
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It's 2021! Time for a crash course in four terms that I often see mixed up when people talk about testing: sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value. These
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Wired about LAMP testing, apparently, so a couple quick thoughts on this new at-home test (which requires a prescription!) before I attempt to sleep. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/17/world/covid-19-coronavirus/fda-authorizes-the-fi
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A few weeks ago, I heard scattered rumors about bizarre positives coming out of coronavirus testing programs at universities.It didn't seem to be the coronavirus. It also wasn't contamination in
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Rapid tests are already being used to screen people without symptoms for the coronavirus — even though they're not cleared for this purpose, and the data in asymptomatics is sparse.Some of
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