Pandemic Woes:Antigen Tests to the Rescue?

• 作者: Peter Weiss
• 来源期刊: 工程（英文）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（1）
• 所属期刊栏目: News & Highlights
• 页码范围: 3-5
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

On 26 August 2020,following unexpectedly strong,post-initial-lockdown resurgences of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)in the late spring and summer,the medical-manufacturer giant Abbott and the US federal government announced approval,for emergency use in public health efforts to control the pandemic,of a new diagnostic testing device the size of a credit card and cost-ing only 5 USD apiece[1].