How Good are COVID-19 Diagnostic PCR Tests?

With the dramatic rise in demand for COVID-19 testing, laboratories have implemented a variety of testing methods, among them polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests. Regularly published research findings seem to question the validity or efficacy of many of the testing methods – and PCR is no different, as Dr. Sophia Yohe explains in this CAPcast interview. Dr. Yohe, director of the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, addressed many questions about diagnostic PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in an article recently posted on the Precision Medicine Resource Center on CAP.org (https://capatholo.gy/32U3XwO).