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The News Bureau, part of Public Affairs, generates and coordinates news coverage of the Urbana-Champaign campus
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Frequent testing improves the detection of SARS-CoV-2 Detecting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, improves with regularity of testing, whether using rapid antigen tests or PCR molecular tests. The PCR test is considered the gold standard for diagnosing COVID-19 infection, but cost and infrastructure issues, as well as wait times for PCR results, have limited its use more broadly as a screening tool for asymptomatic people because rapid results are needed to interrupt the chain of transmission. In a highly anticipated study that compares rapid antigen and laboratory PCR approaches fo...