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U.K. hits hurdle in COVID-19 serology testing as assays don’t meet performance criteria
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April 7, 2020 9:23 PM UTC
Updated on Apr 9, 2020 at 9:24 PM UTC
The U.K.’s hopes of rapidly expanding serological testing for COVID-19 has hit a major speed bump after Sir John Bell revealed that none of the antibody tests so far have met performance standards.
In a blog post published Sunday, the Regius Professor of Medicine said evaluations of commercially available COVID-19 antibody tests by university researchers have yielded disappointing results...