The future of long-term COVID testing is now
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
Kady Tracey, center, watches Juliana Wolfe, right, collect anterior nasal swab at a COVID-19 testing site in Norwalk.
Mention Covid-19 testing and it’s hard not to revisit the debate over rapid versus PCR tests or conjure images of long lines of people waiting for nasal swabs as demand outpaced supplies. Early days of testing focused on the short-term need to make a definitive diagnosis prior to the ramping up of vaccine production and distribution to subjugate the spread.
Testing has come a long way since those early days. Saliva and other less invasive methods are now available for widescale use at home and the office without medical supervision or prescription. Good accurate testing continues to be used as it is needed to allow the public to engage with their families, workplaces and community with confidence and for state and national leaders to understand whether vaccinations are effective and if the n
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State passes 7 million COVID tests, but even as testing slows, the number of variant cases rises
Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org
Julyssa Colon, a nurse with Optimus Health Care, adjusts her PPE before administering a test for COVID-19 at a mobile test site in the parking lot of the Russell Temple Church in Bridgeport on June 30, 2020.
The state quietly passed a milestone this week, recording its 7 millionth COVID-19 test, but even as the pace of testing has slowed, laboratory data suggest that the number of cases that could be caused by the B.1.1.7 variant is rising sharply.
The new data released late Thursday by Dr. Nathan Grubaugh, an associate professor of epidemiology at Yale’s School of Public Health, show there were at least 152 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant as of the end of February.