How A Rural Kansas Hospital Bought Coronavirus Tests That May Only Show That You’ve Had A Cold
Kansas Health Secretary Lee Norman displays a swab used for COVID-19 testing. A small hospital in central Kansas has deployed blood tests that state health officials say can produce false positives among people with common colds. Celia Llopis-Jepsen/Kansas News Service
Celia Llopis-Jepsen, Kansas News Service • April 17, 2020
A 25-bed hospital is selling blood tests it says will tell people if they have COVID-19 immunity, but public health officials say that’s not what the tests do.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS — Herington Municipal Hospital got fed up with long waits for lab results that would tell its patients with respiratory symptoms whether they have the novel coronaviru…
