{"id":2964,"date":"2020-12-30T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2020-12-31T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T21:07:03","slug":"field-performance-and-public-health-response-using-the-binaxnow-rapid-sars-cov-2-antigen-detection-assay-during-community-based-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/30\/field-performance-and-public-health-response-using-the-binaxnow-rapid-sars-cov-2-antigen-detection-assay-during-community-based-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Performance and Public Health Response Using the BinaxNOW Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Detection Assay during Community-Based Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among 3,302 persons tested for SARS-CoV-2 by BinaxNOW Rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection assay in a community setting with 7.2% prevalence, rapid assay sensitivity was 100%, 98.5%, and 89% using RT-PCR Ct thresholds of 30, 35 and none, respectively. The assay maintained high sensitivity performance across ages and those with and without symptoms. Assay specificity was 99.9%. The median time from on-site registration to electronic results notification of a positive rapid antigen test was 62 minutes (IQR: 47-82 minutes).<\/p>\n<p><i>Pilarowski et al. (Dec 26, 2020). Field Performance and Public Health Response Using the BinaxNOW Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Detection Assay during Community-Based Testing. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1890\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1890<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among 3,302 persons tested for SARS-CoV-2 by BinaxNOW Rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection assay in a community setting with 7.2% prevalence, rapid assay sensitivity was 100%, 98.5%, and 89% using RT-PCR Ct thresholds of 30, 35 and none, respectively. The assay maintained high sensitivity performance across ages and those with and without symptoms. Assay specificity was&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/30\/field-performance-and-public-health-response-using-the-binaxnow-rapid-sars-cov-2-antigen-detection-assay-during-community-based-testing\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[117,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-antigen","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}