The Centre on Wednesday said lateral flow tests, which includes rapid-antigen and home-antigen tests, can detect Covid from the third day after exposure to the virus to day eight while the RT-PCR test can diagnose the infection for up to 20 days.
The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it’s overturning a Trump-era decision and granting a petition to require PFAS testing. Wilmington-area environmental groups say that’s misleading, arguing the EPA isn’t responding to their request at all.
when there is a nationwide federal distribution really up in the air. and new research now showing that it is questioning the reliability of detecting the omicron by the widely used rapid test. how do you square that, sir. you know, we know that testing is a part of overall strategy that should be used to keep our schools open. vaccination efforts are also big part of that strategy. we have seen them work. as schools come in, they should be thinking about a testing strategy to make sure students are having symptoms, they should be tested in school. keeping in school is critical for them, our families, our parents. it s important that that is put in place, but they are not done in isolation. mitigation strategy that we know work are also part of the strategy. what about the school s
EPA announced it is granting a petition from six North Carolina public health and environmental justice organizations filed under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act TSCA to compel companies to conduct testing of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances PFAS.
Today’s action advances the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to improve understanding of, and to protect people from, the potential risks of PFAS.