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The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the nation\u2019s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing<\/a> in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of these people are not likely to be contagious, and identifying them may contribute to bottlenecks that prevent those who are contagious from being found in time. But researchers say the solution is not to test less, or to skip testing people without symptoms, as recently suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, new data underscore the need for more widespread use of rapid tests<\/a>, even if they are less sensitive.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision not to test asymptomatic people is just really backward,\u201d said Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, referring to the C.D.C. recommendation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of the nation\u2019s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":76776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1024,1031],"tags":[33,40],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nYour Coronavirus Test Is Positive. 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