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FDA AUTHORIZES FIRST COVID-19 TEST KIT

  FDA AUTHORIZES FIRST COVID-19 TEST KIT. The FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization  emergency use authorization (EUA)  to Lucira Health, Inc. for its single-use, user-friendly COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit that can produce a positive or negative result at home within 30 minutes. Lucira’s test kit is differentiated by its simple ‘swab, stir and detect’ design. Clinical trials showed 100% of patients were successfully able to perform the Lucira test in about two minutes. That is significantly faster than labs which currently take two to seven days to generate similarly accurate test results.  The Lucira™ COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit is expected to be available to patients served by Sutter Health in Northern California, Cleveland Clinic Florida in Miami-Ft. Lauderdale and sold online via  Oxybreathpro Network , in the near future. By early spring 2021, it is expected to be available nationally through health care providers. “There are currently two types of COVID-19 tests that detect