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How reliable are rapid antigen tests against Omicron?

April 18, 2022

According to one Queen's University professor, RATs fall short when it comes to detecting the Omicron COVID-19 variant. With past COVID-19 variants, tests were about 80 per cent accurate. That's dropped to nearly 45 per cent with Omicron. Jessica Nyznik reports.

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