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COVID-19: FDA Webinar Highlights Developer Challenges

 
• By Elizabeth Orr

A recent US FDA webinar offered insights on the technical challenges developers face in trying to get COVID-19 diagnostics to US patients.

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Developers anxious to get COVID-19 diagnostics to the public face a range of practical challenges. That was the feedback from diagnostics developers participating in a recent conference call conducted by the US Food and Drug Administration.

The 6 March town hall offered technical advice to labs that are developing molecular diagnostics to detect COVID-19, including tips...

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