31 Jul 2022

Are RATs giving us the right results?

From Sunday Morning, 8:15 am on 31 July 2022

Doubts have been raised about the efficacy of RAT test brands in Australia, but we've been reassured that the ones here are picking up the new variants. So with so many people post-infection, the latest research on Long Covid enters the frame again.

Dr Andrew Read is at Penn State, Pennsylvania State University. He's the director of its Institutes of Life Sciences and he specialises in the ways infectious diseases work, with expertise as well in how well vaccines cope with them. 

A negative result of SARS-CoV-2 antigen test is seen in this illustration photo

Photo: AFP