The federal government is pushing back on an order from Nevada's department of health to suspend rapid Covid-19 tests in nursing homes due to concern that the tests had too many false positives.
Part of the issue relates to staffing, which is already a stretched resource at many nursing facilities.
"This is obviously necessary to keep an unaware infected individual from coming into a nursing home, and starting a potentially devastating outbreak," Giroir said. He added that if an individual does have a false positive, it would be detected by a PCR test within 48 hours, and the person could return to work. "You already have people who you sent home because they have Covid.
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