Facilitating AcceLerated Clinical Validation Of Novel Diagnostics for COVID-19 (FALCON-C19)

Launched by MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · May 28, 2020

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Eligibility criteria

• Work Stream A (in-hospital; Group 1 and Group 2):
• Group 1 Inclusion Criteria:
• We will include participants (patients or staff):
• • 1. That are 18 years or older
• • 2. That will require testing for COVID-19 in the opinion of the treating clinician
• • 3. That may have presented with acute symptoms of COVID-19 (e.g. fever, cough, dyspnoea, anosmia) or chest x-ray changes or they may be asymptomatic but require testing for other reasons
• Group 2 Inclusion Criteria:
• We will include participants:
• • 1. That are 18 years or older
• • 2. That have been admitted for another reason other than suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection, but when routinely swabbed they have been identified as positive for SARS-CoV-2 PCR
• Work Stream B (Group 3):
• We will include participants:
• • 1. That are 18 years or older
• EITHER:
• • 2. They have been identified as positive for SARS-CoV-2 PCR through testing at national laboratory infrastructure OR
• • 3. They have been identified as negative for SARS-CoV-2 PCR through testing at national laboratory infrastructure
• Work Stream C (Group 4):
• We will include participants:
• • 1. That are 18 years or older
• • 2. Who are undergoing testing for COVID-19, whether they are symptomatic or symptomatic for COVID-19
• Exclusion Criteria for all Work Streams:
• • 1. Patients where it is impossible/unsafe to obtain the required research samples
• • 2. Prisoners
• • 3. Patients where sampling is not feasible