How do you validate a qualitative test?  Here's an introduction to a tiny little tool you might find useful for virus assay validation

A few months into the Covid19 crisis, we need to stop treating it as a short-term crisis and start preparing it like it's a long-term emergency.

Wayne Dimech provides a useful overview of SARS-Cov-2 testing and the COVID-19 illness. Wayne Dimech is Executive Manager, Scientific and Business Relations at NRL, Australia (NRL) in Melbourne. He is a recognized expert in infectious disease serology and laboratory quality.

By mid-July 2020, the list of methods for SARS-COV-2 testing (molecular, antigen, rapid, and serology), was just under 750.  Rather than ask laboratories to evaluate 750 possibilities, we've narrowed the candidates down to a short list.

Wayne Dimech examines the quality - or lack thereof - of SARS-Cov-2 testing. Wayne Dimech is Executive Manager, Scientific and Business Relations at NRL, Australia (NRL) in Melbourne. He is a recognized expert in infectious disease serology and laboratory quality.

In the center of the COVID-19 storm in New York, Northwell health hospitals and laboratories worked swiftly to bring up testing. Dr. Sam Reichberg explains how it happened.