JUST IN: A number of commercially available COVID-19 antibody tests did not pass the Mayo Clinic's quality screening or meet their standards for use, researchers from the hospital conclude in a joint investigation with ABC News.
ABC News and the Mayo Clinic jointly found that many of the tests flooding the market cannot be trusted and should be done by a medical provider for the best results.A number of commercially available COVID-19 antibody tests, which look at a patient’s blood for signs of past infection, did not pass Mayo Clinic quality screening or meet their expectations for use, researchers from the hospital concluded in a joint investigation by the clinic and ABC News.
“We’ll actually be seeing the new version of that probably in the next week to give it another go,” he said. “We evaluate tests and make sure they perform well before we offer them to our clinical colleagues and to providers to use,” said Dr. Elitza Theel, an associate professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic and the researcher who put the laboratory test kits to a test themselves. “And so this really underscores why laboratories continue to evaluate and validate tests thoroughly before offering them for clinical care.
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