{"id":4079,"date":"2025-10-07T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thesheet\/?page_id=4079"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:14:42","slug":"how-do-rats-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thesheet\/school-resources\/covid-19-resources\/how-do-rats-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How do RATs work? &#8211; Rapid Antigen Test explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do RATs work? &#8211; Rapid Antigen Test explainer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This video helps to explain how rapid antigen tests or RATs work. These are used to test for Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How do RATs work? - Rapid Antigen Test explainer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VtW4iviO1BE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acknowledgements: Written and illustrated by Bronwyn Carlisle with help from Miriam Sharpe, Narrated by Miriam Sharpe, Music &#8211; Take it Easy by Luke Bergs Soundcloud.com\/bergscloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other useful links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thesheet\/school-resources\/covid-19-resources\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"4074\">Covid-19 resources<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/biochemistry\">Otago Biochemistry website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thesheet\/school-resources\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3950\">Otago Biochemistry school resources<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHYhDTWgYPcRzSl-Lgobgvw\">YouTube Channel<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do RATs work? &#8211; Rapid Antigen Test explainer This video helps to explain how rapid antigen tests or RATs work. These are used to test for Covid-19. Acknowledgements: Written and illustrated by Bronwyn Carlisle with help from Miriam Sharpe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32571,"featured_media":0,"parent":4074,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4079","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thesheet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thesheet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thesheet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thesheet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thesheet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thesheet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4079\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thesheet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thesheet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}