FDA Takes Steps To Help Serial Testing Efforts, Track Asymptomatic COVID-19 Cases

16 Mar 2021

The agency published a supplemental template for molecular and antigen COVID-19 EUA sponsors whose product can be used for serial testing, and a fact sheet that screening program organizers can use to pick the right test.

A take-home COVID-19 test kit and face mask

The US Food and Drug Administration has published a template for COVID-19 test developers and a screening fact sheet that it hopes will help detect asymptomatic coronavirus cases and allow people to safely get back to their normal lives.

As governments, and entities such as schools and restaurants, try to reopen establishments, they rely on COVID-19 tests to screen...