FDA Says Rapid Tests Are Not as Effective at Detecting Omicron

Veuer 2021-12-29

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The Food and Drug Administration warns that rapid antigen tests appear less sensitive to omicron and therefore worse at detecting it. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.
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