Optimizing testing for COVID-19 in India.

Optimizing testing for COVID-19 in India.

COVID-19 testing across India uses a mix of two types of tests. Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) are relatively inexpensive point-of-care lateral-flow-assay tests, but they are also less sensitive. The reverse-transcriptase polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) test has close to 100% sensitivity and specific...

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Main Authors:	Philip Cherian, Sandeep Krishna, Gautam I Menon
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-07-01
Series:	PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009126

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