Performance of commonly used COVID-19 lateral flow tests for kids below par

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Performance of commonly used COVID-19 lateral flow tests for kids below par

The performance of lateral flow (antigen) tests commonly used to detect COVID-19 infection in children falls short of the minimum criteria set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and US and UK device regulators, finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence on 8 different tests, published in the journal BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.

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