Roughly 80 percent of current COVID-19 test results go unreported due to the widespread use of rapid at-home tests, according to preliminary data from an ongoing UCSF study.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Roughly 80 percent of current COVID-19 test results go unreported due to the widespread availability and use of rapid at-home tests, according to preliminary data from an ongoing study by researchers at University of California, San Francisco.
The study, which is ongoing, has attempted to identify which local governmental policies -- categorized as containment and closure, economic response and public health -- have helped slow the virus' spread and which have not. "We're also hoping to link these policy data with actual health datasets to try to understand how variation in policies affected outcomes like COVID transmission rates, but also related outcomes like mental health, chronic disease, etc.," Hamad said.
As of Wednesday, the national test positivity rate sat at roughly 17 percent, according to Johns Hopkins. The study has found general COVID health risk to be a strong predictor of pandemic-related anxiety with very little variance since the pandemic began, as those who feel most at risk are the most worried about contracting the virus and those who are not at risk showing little or no concern.
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