{"id":4905,"date":"2023-10-11T06:13:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T11:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2023-10-11T06:42:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T11:42:21","slug":"can-rapid-covid-tests-reveal-more-than-a-positive-negative-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/10\/11\/can-rapid-covid-tests-reveal-more-than-a-positive-negative-result\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Rapid COVID Tests Reveal More Than a Positive\/Negative Result?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/exclusives\/106679\">MedPageToday<\/a> Experts agree that rapid antigen test kits can show degrees of infectiousness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At-home rapid COVID-19 tests can reveal more about viral load than a simple positive\/negative result, according to experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;By definition, the basic technology suggests that you somehow have to go from a negative &#8216;zero&#8217; line to a dark line, and within that window &#8212; that 0 to 100% &#8212; there&#8217;s obviously a gradient,&#8221; Michael Mina, MD, PhD, chief science officer for eMed and a well-known public health expert who shares his expertise and views on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelmina_lab\" target=\"_blank\">the social media site known as X<\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/05\/opinion\/covid-pandemic-michael-mina.html\" target=\"_blank\">numerous <\/a>publications told\u00a0<em>MedPage Today<\/em>. Mina recently\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelmina_lab\/status\/1706545922857992354\" target=\"_blank\">shared a schematic<\/a>\u00a0of rapid COVID test results and the potential implications of their variability. Mina has been\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/nejmp2025631?logout=true\" target=\"_blank\">a vocal proponent<\/a>\u00a0of this testing technology, so people can better understand their own infection, and he has not been alone in highlighting these ideas. Researchers have shown that variations in COVID test results can reveal different aspects about an individual&#8217;s infection and, critically, how contagious they are at a given moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/exclusives\/106679\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"E Bfqi  W b    SX\">E Bfqi  W b    SX<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday Experts agree that rapid antigen test kits can show degrees of infectiousness. At-home rapid COVID-19 tests can reveal more about viral load than a simple positive\/negative result, according to experts. &#8220;By definition, the basic technology suggests that you somehow have to go from a negative &#8216;zero&#8217; line to a dark line, and within that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-diagnostics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4906,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/4906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}