BME Prof. Klapperich on Point of Care Testing for COVID
Coronavirus Testing Shouldn’t be This Complicated
Article published in THE VERGE
BME Professor Catherine Klapperich, director of the Laboratory for Diagnostics and Global Healthcare Technologies, discusses point of care testing in The Verge. A relatively straightforward type of test called a polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, has been around for decades. But there hasn’t been a large-scale investment made to commercialize it, so there’s no clear pathway to get it up and running during an emergency.