Coronavirus Standards Working Group

A COVID-19 Diagnostic Standards Development Partnership

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Overview

Multiple efforts, commercial, academic, and public-sector, are underway to develop tools that ensure the reliability of the vital COVID-19 testing enterprise. As testing scales up, we have to be confident that test results are accurate. JIMB is convening experts from across these sectors to make sure that the standards, controls, validation tests, and protocols that underpin testing are in place so we can count on the accuracy of test results.

Partners in this “Coronavirus Standards Working Group” include organizations building the testing technology, organizations making the standards and controls, professional societies that represent the scientists and testing labs, public health agencies, regulatory agencies, and international standards bodies.

This working group will develop an annotated inventory of resources, identify gaps, and conduct international collaborative experiments to evaluate and establish comparability of the diverse control materials and test methods available. The group will establish an open information repository of validation methods and data. As our knowledge evolves we will collaboratively produce the most-needed reference materials, reference samples, and reference measurement methods to underpin an enduring and reliable COVID testing enterprise.