Most existing COVID-19 tests "rely on the same principle, which is that you have accumulated a detectable amount of viral material, for example, in your nose," says study lead author Frank Zhang, who ...

It’s the fifth summer of Covid, and most people seem eager to move on. We want to understand the pervasiveness of the ignorance-is-bliss attitude. By Emily Baumgaertner Covid cases are surging, but in ...

Despite widespread adoption of surveillance testing for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) among staff members in skilled nursing facilities, evidence is limited regarding its relationship with ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers assess key attributes of rapid severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) testing that would enable self-testing for ...

A standardized eye examination might reveal in future whether people are suffering from long COivd / post-Covid. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) was able to demonstrate a clear ...

University of Pretoria provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. In March 2020, weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, its director-general ...

The United States government has discontinued its free at-home COVID-19 test program after four years. The program, which began in 2021, shipped over 900 million tests directly to U.S. households.