Coronavirus Test: How Quidels Antigen Approach Could Be A Game-Changer
Summary
And Quidel has been absolutely "inundated" with requests since gaining emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on May 8, Chief Executive Douglas Bryant told Investors Business Daily. The top priority now is to ship this new category of tests to health care providers, first responders and employees in meatpacking and power plants, he said. But in many cases, samples from swabbed noses must be sent to a central processing lab like Quest Diagnostics (DGX) or Laboratory Corporation of America (LH). Abbott Laboratories (ABT) gained notoriety recently for a PCR coronavirus test that can deliver positive results in five minutes. He imagines massive diagnostic companies like Abbott, Roche (RHHBY) or Becton Dickinson (BDX) could jump in with their own antigen tests.