{"id":5694,"date":"2024-01-16T11:43:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2024-01-16T11:43:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T17:43:27","slug":"why-dont-covid-tests-seem-to-work-as-well-as-they-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/01\/16\/why-dont-covid-tests-seem-to-work-as-well-as-they-used-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don&#8217;t Covid Tests Seem to Work as Well as They Used To?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-01-13\/covid-rapid-test-failures-point-to-flawed-screening-approach-immunologist-says?re_source=postr_story_2\">Bloomberg<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Don\u2019t let symptoms dictate when to test, immunologist says<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Testing time should reflect body\u2019s changing response to Covid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With Covid outbreaks being whipped up for a fifth year, testing has emerged as a source of frustration once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas obtaining a test was often difficult in early 2020, now the abundance of cheaper rapid kits in grocery stores and home medicine cabinets has led to a new concern \u2014 they don\u2019t seem to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen people tell me that their rapid antigen tests never turn positive, they\u2019re usually talking to me because they\u2019re frustrated,\u201d says immunologist and epidemiologist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu\/people\/michael-mina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Mina<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the tests work just as well as they did when they first came out. What\u2019s changed is how our bodies are responding to the coronavirus, leading many people to test too early, says Mina, chief science officer at digital health-care company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.emed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eMed LLC<\/a>, which helped implement the US government\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.test2treat.org\/s\/?language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Home Test to Treat<\/a>\u00a0program a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-01-13\/covid-rapid-test-failures-point-to-flawed-screening-approach-immunologist-says?re_source=postr_story_2\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"xui dIYF feigQqUtabFwoLWQCeaW \">xui dIYF feigQqUtabFwoLWQCeaW <\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg With Covid outbreaks being whipped up for a fifth year, testing has emerged as a source of frustration once again. Whereas obtaining a test was often difficult in early 2020, now the abundance of cheaper rapid kits in grocery stores and home medicine cabinets has led to a new concern \u2014 they don\u2019t seem [&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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"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\/5694","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=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}