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GuideSafe Using Self-Administered Covid-19 Tests

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GuideSafe Using Self-Administered Covid-19 Tests
GuideSafe Using Self-Administered Covid-19 Tests

WAAY 31's Sydney Martin was live outside of Crestwood Hospital this evening after asking officials in Madison County about the self administered coronavirus tests.

Tests students.

Crestwood c-e-0 pam hudson and commission chairman dale strong- both told me today they have many questions about the self administered rapid testing ..

They had a very different tone than officials on a virtual news conference this morning.

Take a listen: george netto, uab department of pathology "it will help us with such a large scale.

Crucial for us was that we maintained the same sensitivity that we were doing with the nasopharyngeal swab.

We went ahead in the lab and validated that indeed we are not going to be losing sensitivity by switching to that.

There are a lot of studies showing that it is equally sensitive.

That was the only reason we moved to that and that will benefit us we anticipate patients down the road switching to that platform.'

Dr. pam hudson, crestwood hospital ceo"it is not something that we will work with in the hospital.

Obviously, we hold ourselves to quite a high standard and we can only use things that are approved under the emergency authorization use by the fda, so i don't have any information on the self administered" dale strong, madison county commission "i hope that it's not a false sense of security.

We don't know what the false positive or false negative rates are but again it's another method that i think will probably be very successful in the days ahead, but currently we don't really know the success rate of these tests."

State health officer scott harris said he thinks this new self administered test being launch shows a lot of promise..

The turn around time for results for the new test is expected to be about 48 hours..

Students need to quarantine until they receive those results.

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