Company chiefs are venting their frustration over federal and state rules that prevent them from using rapid antigen tests across their workplaces to help track and trace the deadly coronavirus variant | Exclusive by CroweDM
Dean Sewell
“If you have inadequate supply of vaccines, then the only thing you can do in the short term is better testing — and the rapid antigen testing has been used overseas now for months successfully,” he said. PCR tests detect COVID-19 by screening for the presence of viral RNA and usually take hours for official results, while antigen tests use a nasal swab that is placed into a chemical solution and delivers a result within 20 minutes.
“Our leaders talk daily about going hard and fast with lockdowns and we need to use this same attitude with other approaches to dealing with COVID-19.”
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