What Coronavirus Test Results Do And Don't Mean

Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 8 a.m.

b'Even though we\'ve been living with the pandemic for months, there\'s still lots of confusion about coronavirus tests and what the results do \\u2014 and don\'t \\u2014 mean. NPR correspondent Rob Stein explains the types of tests, when they are most accurate and how to make sense of the results.

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