Thread by @DrEricDing

QUAD TEST—small device resembling an inkjet-printer cartridge, so-called quad test, now available at thousands of clinics around the country, could detect #SARSCoV2, two types of influenza and the respiratory syncytial virus—in just 30 minutes. Huge.
nytimes.com/2021/05/11/hea…

2) “I remember giving myself a fist bump like, ‘Yes! It’s not Covid. It’s the flu,’” said Dr. Gustafson, chief of emergency medicine of the Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, S.D.

3) “He relayed the news to the patient and his wife, happily adding that there was a treatment he could offer right away, Tamiflu. “The relief in their eyes above their masks was very satisfying,” Dr. Gustafson said.

4) Although last year’s flu season was nonexistent, a confluence of factors might precipitate its return in the fall: children returning to school buildings, declining use of masks and perhaps a lack of recent immune system exposure to the flu.

5) If more people get sick in the fall, he added, they will want to know if it is flu or the coronavirus.

6) “We in the laboratory are preparing for another big boom in testing,” said Dr. Baird, whose team has run more than two million coronavirus tests since the beginning of the pandemic. “Even if people are vaccinated, they’re going to wonder, ‘Am I the breakthrough case?’”