People can test themselves about as accurately at home with rapid antigen coronavirus tests as health care professional using the same tests, a Johns Hopkins Medicine-led study finds. The self-administered COVID tests rivaled those administered by clinicians in their ability to determine accurate positive and negative results and were 83.9% accurate in determining positive results — compared to 88.2% for clinician-administered tests.
People can test themselves about as accurately at home with rapid antigen coronavirus tests as health care professional using the same tests, a Johns Hopkins Medicine-led study finds. The self-administered COVID tests rivaled those administered by clinicians in their ability to determine accurate positive and negative results and were 83.9% accurate in determining positive results — compared to 88.2% for clinician-administered tests.