LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles County will stop using Curative COVID-19 tests at pop-up testing sites after a U.S. Food and Drug Administration alert to patients and health care providers that the test could produce false negatives.
The county Department of Health Services said in a statement Sunday that the change to Fulgent Genetics tests will take place this week.
The department said Curative PCR tests used at the pop-up sites between Dec. 13 and Jan. 2 made up about 10% of all COVID-19 tests administered at county-supported test sites during that same time frame.
The county said all COVID-19 tests have a risk of false negative results but all PCR tests including the Curative test are better at detecting disease than other tests.
The city of Los Angeles, meanwhile, announced that its massive COVID-19 testing site at Dodger Stadium will transition into a vaccination center by the end of this week.
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