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Retesting for COVID-19: UPMC Shares its Experience – Mirage News

PITTSBURGH– In the first large, multicenter analysis of its kind, the 40-hospital UPMC health system today reported its findings on clinician-directed…

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PITTSBURGH– In the first large, multicenter analysis of its kind, the 40-hospital UPMC health system today reported its findings on clinician-directed retesting of patients for presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
While retesting was uncommon, the UPMC analysis found that patients positive for COVID-19 stayed positive for an average of three weeks and repeating tests in patients who were initially negative very rar…

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