India Approves Antigen Test To Speed Detection And Management Of SARS-CoV-2 Infections
On July 23, India approved a rapid antigen test to detect SARS-CoV-2 infections. The product is called the Pathocatch COVID-19 Antigen Rapid testing kit, developed and manufactured in India by Mylab Discovery Solutions. The test will be used as part of an integrated program to …
Immunity To Covid-19 Infection May Fade Quickly
A new study published in Nature Medicine indicates that immunity to infection by SARS-CoV-2 may fade quickly, at least in people with no or moderate symptoms. The duration of protection from reinfection is a subject of intense interest both for convalescents returning …
India’s Covid-19 Testing Capacity Must Grow by a Factor of 10: Here’s How that Can Happen
India’s testing capacity for Covid-19 is extremely insufficient to withstand the size of the outbreak. Many experts believe that a tenfold increase in the country’s testing rate is necessary to keep positivity rates below 10 percent, as recommended by the World Health …
India’s Covid-19 Testing Capacity Must Grow by a Factor of 10
The Center for Global Development, in partnership with ACCESS Health India, has recently released a publication on the subject of India’s Covid-19 testing supply chain. Many experts believe that a tenfold increase in the country’s testing rate is necessary to keep positivity …
Two Weeks And Ten Million Covid Tests In Wuhan
Over the last two weeks of May, all residents over the age of 5 in Wuhan, China were tested for the presence of active SARS-CoV-2 virus replication. The tests identified 300 people with active infection. None of those tested show any signs …
Rapid, Accessible, Affordable, Ubiquitous Tests For SARS-CoV-2 Are On The Way
We need rapid, accessible, affordable and ubiquitous tests to detect those who are actively infected and can infect others. The good news is that they are coming soon. SARS-CoV-2 genome tests The first type of test to detect active infection measures the …
Daily Beast Features ACCESS Health Chair and President on Antibody Tests
New York City remains under seemingly interminable pandemic lockdown. But as researchers around the globe chase the promise of antibody tests—which have faced criticism for their mixed accuracy and dubious reputation as harbingers of COVID-19-immunity—a new wave of such testing in America’s …
Responsible Reopening: A Lesson From NYU Shanghai
This news clip is a glimpse of what reopening looks like for a small university in a country and city that has met the requirements for reopening, according to the Centers for Disease Control guidelines and US public health officials: The number …
The Right Understanding of Covid-19 Paves Way for the Right Response
This is the second in a series of blog posts by ACCESS Health India Country Director Dr. Krishna Reddy. Dr. Reddy is a board certified cardiologist with a long and distinguished career, marked by his leadership of the CARE Hospital Group which …
A Letter To Congress: Four Principles For A Safe Economic Reopening
On Monday, a bipartisan group of public health leaders laid out four principles for the safe reopening of the US economy in a letter to Congress. In it, they argued that the key to reopening our economy would be to test, trace …