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LA, Congress take divergent paths after COVID test warning Jan. 08, 2021 at 12:28 pm BRIAN MELLEY and MATTHEW PERRONE, Associated Press Los Angeles will continue using a coronavirus test that federal regulators warned may produce false results while Congress, which has used the same test, is seeking an alternative. The different responses Thursday followed a Food and Drug Administration alert to patients and health care providers that Curative’s test, which is used in some of the nation’s largest cities, could particularly produce false negatives. Those faulty results pose the biggest ris...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles will continue using a coronavirus test that federal...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles will continue using a coronavirus test that federal regulators warned may produce false results while Congress, which has used the same test, is seeking an alternative. The different responses Thursday followed a Food and Drug Administration alert to patients and health care providers that Curative’s test, which is used in at least three of the nation's largest cities, could particularly produce false negatives. Those faulty results pose the biggest risk from a health perspective because people who are erroneously told they don’t have the virus can unknowi...