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This Scientist Created a Rapid Test Just Weeks Into the Pandemic. Here’s Why You Still Can’t Get It. [propublica.org]:

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When COVID-19 started sweeping across America in the spring of 2020, Irene Bosch knew she was in a unique position to help.

The Harvard-trained scientist had just developed quick, inexpensive tests for several tropical diseases, and her method could be adapted for the novel coronavirus. So Bosch and the company she had co-founded two years earlier seemed well-suited to address an enormous testing shortage.

Journal Reference:
Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 screening, Science Advances (DOI: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd5393 [doi.org])
Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 screening, Science Advances (DOI: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd5393 [doi.org])

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