Kevin King

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The Podcast by KevinMD · Understanding the unseen role of back-to-school diagnostics · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

And we're all familiar with kind of the rapid at-home tests.

There are similar rapid and accurate tests available wherever you seek care.

Sure.

The antigen products are typically more rapid, although molecular products are becoming as rapid as the antigen products.

But

They're different in what they detect.

Molecular products detect some DNA or RNA signature and then amplify that signal to be detected of the virus itself.

Whereas the antigen products are testing a protein component that might be on the surface of the virus.

And in general, molecular tests are considered to be more accurate.

Well, certainly if you have and keep the at-home test for you, that's a place to do those tests even at your home.

And there are combo tests now for both COVID and flu, the most predominant ones as we head into the respiratory season.

If your child has a fever, that's one of the key symptoms that you would want to test early for.

But I think the importance of testing early and not just waiting to see what further symptoms develop or decide at a later point to go to an urgent care or your primary care physician is in part because

there are medicines for both of these.

So there are prescriptions that can help reduce symptoms and ultimately prevent the spread to more vulnerable communities.

And we...

Sometimes we don't realize how vulnerable the folks that we interact with are, like aunts and uncles, grandparents, those types of folks that you come in contact with.

And it's really important this helps people.

prevent the spread of the disease, but also knowing that you have a virus is also important in terms of making sure that you're not prescribed an antibiotic that's not going to work for a virus.

So getting that knowledge is really important also for antibiotic stewardship.

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