Rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test delivers results within 4 minutes with 90 percent accuracy

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A low-cost, rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19 developed by Penn Medicine provides COVID-19 results within four minutes with 90 percent accuracy. A paper published this week in Matter details the fast and inexpensive diagnostic test, called RAPID 1.0. Compared to existing methods for COVID-19 detection, RAPID is inexpensive and highly scalable, allowing the production of millions of units per week.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news