{"id":2006,"date":"2021-08-13T14:10:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2021-08-13T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:10:14","slug":"interim-guidance-for-antigen-testing-for-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=2006","title":{"rendered":"Interim Guidance for Antigen Testing for SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors: CDC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary of Recent Changes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">Updates as of May 13, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><li>Updated guidance based on new published studies on antigen test performance.<\/li><li>Clarification about which NAATs should be used for confirmatory testing.<\/li><li>Considerations for people who have had previous SARS-CoV-2 infections and those who have been fully vaccinated.<\/li><li>Two new antigen testing algorithms, one for congregate living settings, and one for community settings.<\/li><li>Updates to testing suggestions for fully vaccinated, asymptomatic people.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/lab\/resources\/antigen-tests-guidelines.html#previous\">View Previous Updates<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><li>This interim guidance is intended for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthliteracy\/education-support\/healthcareproviders.html\">healthcare providers<\/a>&nbsp;who order antigen tests, receive antigen test results, or perform point-of-care testing, as well as for laboratory professionals who perform antigen testing in a laboratory setting or at the point of care and report those results.<\/li><li>The purpose of this interim technical guidance is to support effective clinical and public health use of antigen tests for different testing situations.<\/li><li>This guidance applies to all clinical and consumer uses of antigen tests and is not specific to any particular age group.<\/li><li>This guidance incorporates considerations for fully vaccinated people and should be used in conjunction with CDC\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html\">Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/lab\/resources\/antigen-tests-guidelines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/lab\/resources\/antigen-tests-guidelines.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: CDC Summary of Recent Changes Updates as of May 13, 2021 Updated guidance based on new published studies on antigen test performance. Clarification about which NAATs should be used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,683,119,607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antigen","category-antigen-test","category-diagnostics-covid-19","category-vaccine-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}