April 27, 2021 – Quidel (San Diego, CA) announced it will host a webinar to help physicians differentiate between Lyme disease, COVID-19, and the flu.
The webinar will be held Wednesday, May 5 at 12 pm ET.
Titled “Solve the Great Imitators: Is it COVID-19, Tick-Borne Disease or the Flu?,” the webinar will be conducted by Sean McCloy, MD, MPH, MA, medical director at the Integrative Health Center of Maine in Portland where he practices family medicine with an expertise in Lyme disease.
The free educational program is being held in collaboration with the Global Lyme Alliance.
As the weather heats up during spring and summer, McCloy says that it is particularly important to test for Lyme disease, which afflicts as many as 400,000 Americans each year and can lead to a number of serious life-threatening problems if not caught early. “Fortunately, new tools are now available to make it easier to test for Lyme disease quickly and accurately,” he says. “The best tool I have found and one which has revolutionized the speed and accuracy for diagnosing Lyme disease is the Sofia 2 Lyme FIA test by Quidel.”
The Sofia 2 Lyme test provides the patient and physician with indicative results within 15 minutes, as opposed to days, which has historically been the norm. Performed in the privacy of a doctor’s office or local clinic, it is also the only test that can get results from a simple finger prick of blood. “Not having to wait days for test results allows clinicians to more rapidly treat those patients with positive results while more quickly pursuing other diagnosis and treatment for those who test negative,” says McCloy.