While COVID-19 infections rates are on a downturn, the viral threat is expected to become an endemic concern, which means at-home testing will remain a booming sector in the industry. With its newly authorized at-home antigen test, Rockville’s MaximBio expects to carve out a significant share of the market.
At the end of January, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Emergency Use Authorization to MaximBio’s ClearDetect COVID-19 Antigen Home Test, which has been designed to be as user-friendly as possible. MaximBio Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Maa believes that the company’s ClearDetect test will differentiate itself from other tests on the market due to its simplicity and the strength of the company’s proven Lateral Flow Assay (LFA) technology. In an interview with BioBuzz, Maa said at-home testing is an urgent need in the United States and that need “will exist for some time.”
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