Home testing for COVID-19: lessons from direct to consumer genetics

On March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 was declared a worldwide pandemic. Publicly available testing has lagged, and tech entrepreneurs have quickly volunteered to fill this gap. Over the last two decades, genetic testing ordered outside of a clinic and without the involvement of a physician has been a way f...

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Autores principales: Wilson, Theodore E., Halverson, Colin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7298440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32556893
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12687-020-00470-8
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description On March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 was declared a worldwide pandemic. Publicly available testing has lagged, and tech entrepreneurs have quickly volunteered to fill this gap. Over the last two decades, genetic testing ordered outside of a clinic and without the involvement of a physician has been a way for the average individual to get genetic testing. In this commentary, we discuss the lessons learned from this parallel case from genetics and suggest regulatory caution in establishing direct-to-consumer COVID testing.
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spelling pubmed-72984402020-06-17 Home testing for COVID-19: lessons from direct to consumer genetics Wilson, Theodore E. Halverson, Colin J Community Genet Short Communication On March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 was declared a worldwide pandemic. Publicly available testing has lagged, and tech entrepreneurs have quickly volunteered to fill this gap. Over the last two decades, genetic testing ordered outside of a clinic and without the involvement of a physician has been a way for the average individual to get genetic testing. In this commentary, we discuss the lessons learned from this parallel case from genetics and suggest regulatory caution in establishing direct-to-consumer COVID testing. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-06-16 2020-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7298440/ /pubmed/32556893 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12687-020-00470-8 Text en © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
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