{"id":104396,"date":"2020-03-28T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/u-s-approves-abbott-labs-five-minute-rapid-coronavirus-test"},"modified":"2020-03-28T10:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:42:19","slug":"u-s-approves-abbott-labs-five-minute-rapid-coronavirus-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/u-s-approves-abbott-labs-five-minute-rapid-coronavirus-test","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Approves Abbott Labs Five-Minute \u2018Rapid\u2019 Coronavirus Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-approves-abbott-labs-five-minute-rapid-coronavirus-test2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abbott Laboratories won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its molecular test for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19, which the company says can deliver \u201cpositive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FDA\u2019s \u201cemergency use authorization\u201d awarded to Abbott\u2019s ID NOW COVID-19 test is the latest in a growing number of agency approvals for more rapid molecular \u201cpoint-of-care\u201d diagnostic tests that can be used in temporary screening locations, doctor\u2019s office labs and nursing homes to detect the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 within a half hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith rapid testing on ID NOW, healthcare providers can perform molecular point-of-care testing outside the traditional four walls of a hospital in outbreak hotspots,\u201d Abbott president and chief operating officer Robert Ford said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbott Laboratories won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its molecular test for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19, which the company says can deliver \u201cpositive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes.\u201d The FDA\u2019s \u201cemergency use authorization\u201d awarded to Abbott\u2019s ID NOW COVID-19 test is the latest in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}