Buyer beware: inflated claims of sensitivity for rapid COVID-19 tests

Affiliations

¹ Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA; Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
² Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
³ Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Electronic address: alison.galvani@yale.edu.

Meagan C Fitzpatrick et al. Lancet. 2021.

. 2021 Jan 2;397(10268):24-25.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32635-0. Epub 2020 Dec 14.

¹ Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA; Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
² Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
³ Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Electronic address: alison.galvani@yale.edu.

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