Cepheid’s New Covid-19 Test Shows Results in 45 Minutes (1)

A Covid-19 test can deliver results in less than an hour has been approved under an FDA emergency authorization, marking the first test that clinicians can use where they’re caring for the patient.

Testing shortages have been an ongoing challenge in the U.S. response to curb the pandemic in the U.S. The White House has promised testing will ramp up as more private companies come on board. Public health and clinical labs have run more than 195,000 tests to date, but that doesn’t include hospital laboratories running their own test, Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department ...