While at a friend’s house for dinner the other day, I overheard a conversation about COVID testing. There seemed to be quite a bit of confusion about the testing types and accuracy. With all the talk ...

COVID-19 and its latest Omicron strains continue to cause infections across the country as well as globally. Serology (blood) and molecular tests are the two most commonly used methods for rapid COVID ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Assure Tech emergency use authorization for a point-of-care test capable of detecting past COVID-19 infections through blood samples. In July, the Assure ...

New COVID-19 tests that can tell not only whether you have had coronavirus before, but estimate how many antibodies to the virus are present in the body, have been given authorization by the US FDA.

Public health experts, including members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, have argued accurate Covid-19 antibody tests can support efforts to get Americans back to work by determining who ...

There has been much discussion in the media on the use of serology (antibody) testing in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of this information is misleading, setting unrealistic expectations on ...

HOUSTON -- Two different types of detectable antibody responses in SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) tell very different stories and may indicate ways to enhance public health efforts against the disease, ...

With the omicron variant of the coronavirus rampant across the country, testing has become a crucial component of day-to-day life. While the Biden administration has pledged to distribute 500 million ...

Serology test can detect the presence of immunoglobulin class G (IgG) antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 virus in blood. But the accuracy of such Covid-19 coronavirus antibody testing is highly variable. (Photo ...