{"id":1120,"date":"2020-09-24T11:09:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:10:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T18:10:19","slug":"massive-and-rapid-covid-19-testing-is-feasible-by-extraction-free-sars-cov-2-rt-pcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/24\/massive-and-rapid-covid-19-testing-is-feasible-by-extraction-free-sars-cov-2-rt-pcr\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive and Rapid COVID-19 Testing Is Feasible by Extraction-Free SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Smyrlaki et al. developed a streamlined protocol for SARS-CoV-2 testing using RT-PCR directly on heat-inactivated samples and lysates without the need for RNA extraction, which is a bottleneck in PCR testing. Their protocol achieved a sensitivity of 96% and specificity of 99.8% compared to conventional RT-PCR. The authors suggest that this novel protocol could have significant time and cost savings and help expand COVID-19 testing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Smyrlaki et al. (Sept 23, 2020). Massive and Rapid COVID-19 Testing Is Feasible by Extraction-Free SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR. Nature Communications. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-18611-5\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-18611-5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smyrlaki et al. developed a streamlined protocol for SARS-CoV-2 testing using RT-PCR directly on heat-inactivated samples and lysates without the need for RNA extraction, which is a bottleneck in PCR testing. Their protocol achieved a sensitivity of 96% and specificity of 99.8% compared to conventional RT-PCR. The authors suggest that this novel protocol could have&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/24\/massive-and-rapid-covid-19-testing-is-feasible-by-extraction-free-sars-cov-2-rt-pcr\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}