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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting lab managers that several COVID-19 tests, including one used in Minnesota s free public testing, carry a slight risk of returning inaccurate results because of recent genetic mutations in the virus.
But there s an upside. Thermo Fisher Scientific, which makes the TaqPath COVID test used at community testing sites across the state, says the test not only remains accurate, but it may offer an important clue that a more infectious COVID strain is present.
And the technique has already worked in Minnesota.
Department of Health officials say three of Minnesota s first confirmed cases of a more infectious variant of COVID-19, announced Jan. 9, were found after analyzing samples that returned a specific test result in the lab called an S-gene drop out.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Some Minnesota bars and restaurants began reopening at half capacity on Monday, eager to get back in business under loosening restrictions even as a new coronavirus variant.