Researchers report rare but persistent false positives on COVID-19 home antigen tests

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Researchers report rare but persistent false positives on COVID-19 home antigen tests
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UMass Chan Medical School researchers have documented a phenomenon that had confounded clinicians: Some people persistently test positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on rapid home antigen tests despite obtaining concurrent negative PCR tests.

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