The number of people known to have been infected worldwide with SARS-CoV-2 has soared past three million and claimed the lives of more than 200,000.1 And the number of known cases continues to rise − it can now be found on every continent except Antarctica.2The United States has had the greatest number of confirmed cases − and deaths – exceeding even the toll in China where the disease originated. However, public health experts have voiced their concern that the current number of both cases and deaths is inaccurate because too few people have been tested. While the virus is deadly for some, causing pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome or kidney failure, many who have it experience mild symptoms or no symptoms at all, making it much harder to detect a robust surveillance to find, isolate, test and treat every case, to break the chains of transmission”.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of billions of people, nearly overwhelming healthcare systems and pushing the global economy to the brink of collapse. The quest for effective treatments and a preventive vaccine starts with – and depends on – the broad availability of fast, accurate and reliable testing.
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