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Healthcare workers should be screened for coronavirus every week, leading expert says 

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Professor Charles Swanton, who heads the Francis Crick Institute, argued healthcare workers are spreading the disease ‘right in front of our eyes’ Healthcare workers should be screened for coronavirus every week to protect patients from asymptomatic infection, a leading expert has said. Professor Charles Swanton, who works at the Francis Crick Institute, argued one of … Read more

False negative coronavirus tests could be due to how healthcare workers are collecting samples

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The US has tested more than 1.2 million Americans for coronavirus, but some have received negative results despite being infected. The coronavirus is a disease that forms in the lungs, but it sometimes sits in a cavity between the nose and throat where a swab is unable to reach. Although the RT-polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) … Read more