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Users on social media are interpreting a screenshot of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recall of one company’s COVID-19 test to mean that all PCR tests have never worked. FDA officials ...

Editor’s Note (4/6/20): This article was updated after publication with the information that the FDA has granted an emergency use authorization to a 15-minute coronavirus test created by Abbott ...