Inside the High-Stakes Race to Test the Covid Tests
Posted March 15, 2022
External Article: The New York Times
Sarah Farmer, a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the project manager of Georgia Tech’s HomeLab, was quoted in the article, 'Inside the High-Stakes Race to Test the Covid Tests' published March, 15, 2022 in The New York Times.
Sarah discusses the effort that involves Georgia Tech in evaluating COVID tests.
An excerpt:
Researchers also assessed the user-friendliness of each product. “You want to make sure that nothing requires too much force, make sure that it’s easy to grasp, grip,” said Sarah Farmer, managing director of Georgia Tech’s HomeLab. “Let’s streamline it where possible, cut down steps where possible.”
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Sarah Farmer, a research scientist with HomeLab in the Center for Advanced Communications Policy, is using her expertise in human factors design to help evaluate Covid-19 testing kits submitted as part of the National Institutes of Health's $500 million Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative to speed development, evaluation, and commercialization of new tests. (Photo: Christopher Moore/Institute Communications)