News Report | July 8, 2020
National Institutes Of Health Launches Rapid Innovation Initiative To Develop COVID-19 Home Or Point-Of-Care Tests By Fall 2020
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is facilitating a national rapid innovation initiative to speed delivery of accurate, easy-to-use, scalable home or point-of-care tests for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) before the fall of 2020. The goal is that millions of tests will be available by September 2020, and a pipeline of more COVID-19 tests to be available in advance of the 2020 flu season. Funding of $1.5 billion for this effort was provided by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. NIH launched the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative on . . .