{"id":5686,"date":"2024-05-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2024-05-07T12:51:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T16:51:44","slug":"what-are-the-most-reliable-rapid-antigen-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/what-are-the-most-reliable-rapid-antigen-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the most reliable rapid antigen tests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has analysed 26&nbsp;RATs from Australia and Canada, finding only six could effectively detect the lowest concentrations of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Patients across the globe have come to rely on rapid antigen tests (RATs) to confirm a COVID-19 diagnosis, <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0039914024005265#sec3\" rel=\"noopener\">but a new Australian study has revealed most are not producing accurate results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from James Cook University (JCU) say they were left \u2018shocked\u2019 after an analysis of 26&nbsp;RATs from Australia and Canada found just six were effective at detecting the lowest concentration of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>One Canadian test failed to detect the COVID-19 protein entirely at any level of concentration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has analysed 26&nbsp;RATs from Australia and Canada, finding only six could effectively detect the lowest concentrations of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Patients across the globe have come to rely on rapid antigen tests (RATs) to confirm a COVID-19 diagnosis, <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0039914024005265#sec3\" rel=\"noopener\">but a new Australian study has revealed most are not producing accurate results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from James Cook University (JCU) say they were left \u2018shocked\u2019 after an analysis of 26&nbsp;RATs from Australia and Canada found just six were effective at detecting the lowest concentration of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>One Canadian test failed to detect the COVID-19 protein entirely at any level of concentration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/what-are-the-most-reliable-rapid-antigen-tests\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What are the most reliable rapid antigen tests?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[407,96,18,77,728,1102,1103,1104,22,8,14],"class_list":["post-5686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-influenza","tag-influenza-a","tag-influenza-b","tag-james-cook-university","tag-national-research-council-canada","tag-rapid-tests","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5689,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}