COVID testing guidelines and what we know about how long you're contagious have changed since the start of the pandemic. So we sat down with a leading epidemiologist, who provided guidance on which tests to do, when to do them and how to interpret them. When should you test for COVID?
COVID testing is an important part of protecting yourself and others from illness. These days, at-home tests are easy to get. Testing yourself right away when you have symptoms of COVID is a good idea. If you think you might have been exposed to COVID, but you don’t have symptoms,...
BOSTON - With the rise in COVID cases in the community, many people are pulling out the rapid home tests they bought months ago. But how do you know if they still work? The first thing to do is check the expiration date on the box. If the expiration date hasn't come and gone, ...
Joyner's office oversaw purchasing and delivery of the 12 brands of tests that COVIDTests.gov has supplied over its seven rounds to date. "The purpose of that program is really to have people utilizing these tests now, the fall through the winter, because we know that's the season where...
Ahead of what’s shaping up to be another seasonalspike in Covid-19 cases, the Biden administration is once againoffering free at-home teststhrough the U.S. Postal Service. Starting Monday, anyone who wants four tests shipped to their home simply has to go toCovidTests.govand fill ...
What are the symptoms of coronavirus? What can you expect with COVID variants? Fever, fatigue and dry cough; nasal congestion, runny nose and sore throat; diarrhea; and shortness of breath are signs of infection.
There are still not enough Americans being tested for COVID-19, but there are now many, many ways to be tested. The U.S. started this pandemic with a single dia…
covid-19 display no symptoms but can still infect others.) There are some encouraging signs. A leaked draft of a paper put together by Pfizer and Israel’s health ministry suggests that receiving both doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine cuts asymptomatic cases of covid-19 by nearly 90%. ...
And on 24 June The BMJ published a letter from a group of senior clinical academics and physicians publicly questioning the government's antibody testing strategy,1 just as the first systematic review of studies on covid-19 antibody tests is set to be published. Jon Deeks, professor of ...
Because antigen tests are quick but generally less accurate than PCR tests, they probably will be reserved for screening folks who don't have any symptoms of possible COVID-19 infection, Pritt said. "If we are screening large numbers of individuals and we plan on doing that on a regular ba...