We Have a Coronavirus Test—Let Us Use It
April 15, 2020 - Wall Street Journal
Jack Lipton, PhD, and Caryl Sortwell, PhD, co-authored the op-ed “We Have a Coronavirus Test – Let us use it” published in the Wall Street Journal.
"Our research team used Food and Drug Administration guidelines and a scientific report from Wuhan, China, to develop a Covid-19 test in early March. It took one week. Our test doesn’t use the reagents other labs are desperately seeking, and it can identify levels of virus so low that a typical test could miss them entirely. Yet our lab sits idle."