{"id":3202,"date":"2021-01-13T13:17:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2021-01-14T13:18:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:18:52","slug":"performance-and-implementation-evaluation-of-the-abbott-binaxnow-rapid-antigen-test-in-a-high-throughput-drive-through-community-testing-site-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/13\/performance-and-implementation-evaluation-of-the-abbott-binaxnow-rapid-antigen-test-in-a-high-throughput-drive-through-community-testing-site-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance and Implementation Evaluation of the Abbott BinaxNOW Rapid Antigen Test in a High-Throughput Drive-through Community Testing Site in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> An evaluation of the Abbott BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card in a drive-through community testing site in Massachusetts using anterior nasal swab RT-PCR for clinical testing found that BinaxNOW had very high specificity in both adults and children (100% for both) and very high sensitivity in newly symptomatic adults (96.5% within 7 days of symptoms). Sensitivity and specificity in asymptomatic adults were 70.2% and 99.6%, respectively, and in asymptomatic children were 65.4% and 99.0%, respectively. Overall, 95.8% sensitivity was observed with Ct \u226430.<\/p>\n<p><i>Pollock et al. (Jan 12, 2021). Performance and Implementation Evaluation of the Abbott BinaxNOW Rapid Antigen Test in a High-Throughput Drive-through Community Testing Site in Massachusetts. Pre-print downloaded Jan 13 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.01.09.21249499v1\">https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.01.09.21249499v1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] An evaluation of the Abbott BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card in a drive-through community testing site in Massachusetts using anterior nasal swab RT-PCR for clinical testing found that BinaxNOW had very high specificity in both adults and children (100% for both) and very high sensitivity in newly symptomatic adults (96.5% within 7 days&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/13\/performance-and-implementation-evaluation-of-the-abbott-binaxnow-rapid-antigen-test-in-a-high-throughput-drive-through-community-testing-site-in-massachusetts\/\">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-3202","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\/3202","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=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3203,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/3203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}