{"654584":{"#nid":"654584","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"COVID rapid tests may not detect all variants. Here\u0027s why.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERapid tests are a quick and easy way to find out if you\u0026rsquo;ve contracted Covid-19,\u0026nbsp;but some tests may not detect variants of the virus.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;The chances are a little bit more that those kinds of tests will not detect the new variant,\u0026rdquo; says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/finn\/m.g.\u0022\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Professor and Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;James A. Carlos Family Chair for Pediatric Technology.\u0026nbsp;Rapid tests, also known as antigen tests, seek and grab ahold of specific proteins around the outside shell of the virus. Variants can alter those proteins, Finn says.\u0026nbsp;If it changes the specific protein the test was designed for, you can get false negatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-01-19 17:59:33","changed_gmt":"2022-01-19 20:20:23","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/local\/outreach\/why-guy\/rapid-test-covid-variants\/85-ed660991-8d2d-4779-9b9d-b20246bc2baa","dateline":{"date":"2022-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"139311","name":"M"},{"id":"189753","name":"G. Finn"},{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"},{"id":"185292","name":"covid-19 testing"},{"id":"189615","name":"omicron"},{"id":"189754","name":"virus variants"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}