Quantifying the potential value of antigen-detection rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19: a modelling analysis.

Saskia RicksEmily A KendallDavid W DowdyJilian A SacksSamuel G SchumacherNimalan Arinaminpathy

Published in: BMC medicine (2021)

Despite their imperfect sensitivity and specificity, Ag-RDTs have the potential to be simultaneously more impactful, and have a lower cost per death and infectious person-days averted, than current approaches to COVID-19 diagnostic testing.

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