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A COVID-19 test site in Crenshaw. (Chava Sanchez/LAist)
JAN. 10 UPDATE: On Sunday, the L.A. County Health Department issued a statement that read, in part: As a precaution, the LA County Department of Health Services (DHS) will discontinue the use of the Curative COVID-19 PCR tests at our County-supported pop-up testing sites. The change, which will take place this week, comes after a review of the data that prompted the recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration alert about the possibility of false negative results.
ORIGINAL STORY: The city and county of Los Angeles will stick with a COVID-19 test by the company Curative despite an FDA alert this week saying the test poses a “risk of false results, particularly false negative results.” The agency didn’t specify the false error rate.
Coronavirus
Updated
Published
A COVID-19 test site in Crenshaw. (Chava Sanchez/LAist)
JAN. 10 UPDATE: On Sunday, the L.A. County Health Department issued a statement that read, in part: As a precaution, the LA County Department of Health Services (DHS) will discontinue the use of the Curative COVID-19 PCR tests at our County-supported pop-up testing sites. The change, which will take place this week, comes after a review of the data that prompted the recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration alert about the possibility of false negative results.
ORIGINAL STORY: The city and county of Los Angeles will stick with a COVID-19 test by the company Curative despite an FDA alert this week saying the test poses a “risk of false results, particularly false negative results.” The agency didn’t specify the false error rate.