{"id":9459,"date":"2021-04-28T13:24:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9459"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:25:17","slug":"the-dark-side-of-sars-cov-2-rapid-antigen-testing-screening-asymptomatic-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/28\/the-dark-side-of-sars-cov-2-rapid-antigen-testing-screening-asymptomatic-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Side of SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Testing Screening Asymptomatic Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test (Standard Q) only identified 2 of 7 PCR positive patients when used as a screening tool before hospital admission for asymptomatic patients (n=116) in Switzerland, corresponding to a sensitivity of 29%. The rapid test also delivered two false positives (specificity=98.2%). Nasopharyngeal swabs for both the rapid test and PCR test were sampled simultaneously from patients.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caruana et al.\u00a0(Apr 27, 2021). The Dark Side of SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Testing Screening Asymptomatic Patients. Pre-print downloaded Apr 28 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.24.21256040\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.24.21256040<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test (Standard Q) only identified 2 of 7 PCR positive patients when used as a screening tool before hospital admission for asymptomatic patients (n=116) in Switzerland, corresponding to a sensitivity of 29%. The rapid test also delivered two false positives (specificity=98.2%). Nasopharyngeal swabs for both the rapid test&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/28\/the-dark-side-of-sars-cov-2-rapid-antigen-testing-screening-asymptomatic-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-9459","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\/9459","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9460,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions\/9460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9459"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}