According to a press release from Abbott Laboratories, the new antibody tests will provide more efficient results, and can exclude false-positive results 99.6 percent of the time and exclude false-negative results 100 percent of the time.
On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration approved emergency use authorization for Abbott Laboratories' new coronavirus antibody test, the company announced.
"Having more options of highly reliable tests across our platforms will help healthcare workers and health officials as they conduct broad scale testing for COVID-19," said Robert B. Ford, president and chief executive officer for Abbott Laboratories."Abbott is a leader in providing antibody testing at large scale on multiple systems, which is helping meet the needs of laboratories as they look to build testing capacity.
"Abbott also expects to submit this week for CE Mark to the IVD Directive in the European Union for the Alinity i SARS-CoV-2 IgG test," the company wrote in their press release.
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