LINCOLN - An email from an infectious disease specialist in Utah has drawn scrutiny to the accuracy of coronavirus tests provided by a private company contracted to roll out the same test kits in Nebraska.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported Thursday the tests provided by Nomi Health may require a higher limit of detection to return a positive result, meaning some people who may have contracted COVID-19 would show up as negative. Only 2% of the tests conducted at Test Utah sites — the public-private partnership that served as a template for Test Nebraska — were positive since April 1, the newspaper reported. That's compared to a 5% return of positive tests from other testing sites in Utah.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts announced the $27 million partnership with Nomi Health, which is providing the tests produced by Co-Diagnostics; Qualtrics, which designed the online health assessment more than 100,000 Nebraskans have used since the program was announced; and Domo Inc., which provides data analytics, on April 22.

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