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Rapid testing could ‘drive coronavirus to extinction in weeks’, US study finds – Yahoo News Australia
Testing half the population weekly with cheaper, rapid Covid-19 tests could drive the virus towards ‘extinction’ within weeks, Harvard researchers have shown…
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests are faster, but less accurate tests for coronavirus (Getty)
Testing half the population weekly with cheaper, rapid Covid-19 tests could drive the virus towards extinction within weeks, Harvard researchers have shown.
Harvard researchers modelled several scenarios using rapid tests – in one, where 4% of individuals in a city were infected, rapid testing three out of four people every three days reduced the number ultimately infected by 88%
The researchers say…
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