FALCON

Start date:
November 2020

Main trial site:
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

FALCON is a multi-centre diagnostic study that aims to test the accuracy of a COVID viral detection test that hopes to lead to the development of a point-of-care diagnostic device.

Patients give two sets of samples, one swab and one swab and a saliva samples.  One of these samples sets is sent for the testing via the current standard, PCR, and the other is tested using mass spectrometry.