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FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for new "Antigen" Test for COVID-19

May 11, 2020

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for an Antigen Test for the coronavirus, produced by Quidel Corporation . We talk with Dr. Sharon Isern , Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University and a molecular virologist to learn what makes this test different, and how it basically works.