Luke Grant is joined by Professor Patrick Kwan, Department of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, one of a number of Monash experts that says the case for accurate and quick mobile point-of-care COVID testing is irrefutable.

 

The academics have authored a story for Monash Lens that highlights the need for portable point-of-care tests:

 

“Firstly, as citizens – but also as clinicians, researchers and medical technology innovators – we’re very concerned with the state of diagnosing COVID-19 in Australia. 

 

“The recent outbreaks of the Delta variant in New South Wales and Victoria have seen the discussion on COVID-19 testing shift to include consideration of rapid antigen testing. 

 

“But this only heightens our concern, and further reveals a failure of public policy to invest in development and deployment of decentralised diagnostic devices, most importantly a highly-mobile and swift point-of-care (POC) COVID-19 nucleic acid test.”

Luke Grant is joined by Professor Patrick Kwan, Department of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, one of a number of Monash experts that says the case for accurate and quick mobile point-of-care COVID testing is irrefutable.
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The academics have authored a story for Monash Lens that highlights the need for portable point-of-care tests:
&nbsp;
&ldquo;Firstly, as citizens &ndash; but also as clinicians, researchers and medical technology innovators &ndash; we&rsquo;re very concerned with the state of diagnosing COVID-19 in Australia.&nbsp;
&nbsp;
&ldquo;The recent outbreaks of the Delta variant in New South Wales and Victoria have seen the discussion on COVID-19 testing shift to include consideration of rapid antigen testing.&nbsp;
&nbsp;
&ldquo;But this only heightens our concern, and further reveals a failure of public policy to invest in development and deployment of decentralised diagnostic devices, most importantly a highly-mobile and swift point-of-care (POC) COVID-19 nucleic acid test.&rdquo;

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