The Need for More and Better Testing for COVID-19

JAMA. 2020 Dec 1;324(21):2153-2154. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.21694.

Authors

Yukari C Manabe¹, Joshua S Sharfstein², Katrina Armstrong³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

No abstract available

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / diagnosis*
COVID-19 / virology
COVID-19 Testing*
Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control
Humans
Point-of-Care Testing
RNA, Viral / analysis
SARS-CoV-2 / genetics
SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification*
Sensitivity and Specificity
Viral Load

Substances

RNA, Viral

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