Calls grow for US to rely on rapid tests to fight pandemic

By MATTHEW PERRONE (AP Health Writer)

WASHINGTON Feb. 6, 2021 7:14 p.m.

With President Joe Biden vowing to get younger students back to the classroom by spring, some experts want the U.S. to refocus its COVID-19 testing system less on medical precision than on mass screening that they believe could save hundreds of thousands of lives