Is it COVID or the flu? New combo tests can find out
By Roxanne Khamsi New York Times,Updated May 11, 2021, 8:15 a.m.
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A person was tested for COVID at a site in Randolph. New tests can detect not only the coronavirus, but two types of influenza and the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
In January, a man in his 60s with heart disease and diabetes went to a South Dakota hospital with a cough and fever, worried he had COVID. A nurse swabbed the inside of his nose, and the sample went into a small device resembling an inkjet-printer cartridge, which was then placed into a machine about the size of a printer.