Experts say antigen tests could be used by businesses and universities where there is a demand for frequent, rapid testing.
Sara Polon spends $800 dollars each week onfor the staffers at her Washington, D.C., business, but sometimes the test results don’t come back for weeks.
"If I'm getting results 2 1/2 weeks later, I might as well just take that $800 and flush it down the toilet," Polon told NBC News."I'm just at the mercy of these national labs, and it's petrifying." Epidemiologist Dr. Michael Mina of Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health wants the U.S. to support more, which can offer faster results with less lab work. Doctors already use antigen tests to diagnose infectious illnesses like influenza or strep throat, and while they are not as sensitive as the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test, widespread use of them could ease lab delays and help control"burning epidemics" across the U.S., Mina said.
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