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Need an at-home COVID test? Here's help finding and using one
(HealthDay)—The surge of the Omicron variant across the United States has left people scrambling to find at-home COVID-19 test kits.
Jan 10, 2022
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California to extend indoor mask mandate until mid-February
California's indoor mask mandate was extended into mid-February to help prevent the astonishing spike in coronavirus cases from overwhelming hospitals but the state's health director said Wednesday additional restrictions ...
Jan 6, 2022
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Virus surge tests limits of primary health care in Europe
Like many people, Alberto Pérez of Madrid used a home test to discover that his headache and cold-like symptoms were caused by COVID-19.
Jan 5, 2022
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A potential at-home COVID-19 test is just as good as laboratory PCR tests, according to preclinical data
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have designed a high-quality assay that can be used in at-home tests for rapid COVID-19 screening. Results from an early preclinical study suggest that tests with the new ...
Jan 3, 2022
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Can at-home COVID-19 tests detect omicron?
Can you trust an at-home test to detect COVID-19 caused by the highly transmissible and now dominant omicron variant?
Jan 3, 2022
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How easy will health insurers make it to get free, at-home COVID-19 tests?
Trying to get screened for COVID-19 before the holidays, Gia Ingenito stood in a long line at a free testing site in a park two blocks from the White House last week.
Dec 29, 2021
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Search for a COVID-19 test means sold-out signs, long lines
President Joe Biden promised to distribute hundreds of millions of free COVID-19 tests and to open more testing sites to fight surging infections, but the stepped-up efforts will not come in time for people who want to find ...
Dec 23, 2021
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Omicron tests the limits of COVID-19 testing
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we've heard that frequent testing should be a key component in controlling spread of the virus. But two years in, Americans continue to struggle finding tests and getting results ...
Dec 23, 2021
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Do lateral flow tests detect omicron?
Just as we thought we understood COVID testing, along came omicron and raised a whole new bunch of questions. We asked Dr. Andrew Lee, a reader in global public health, to answer them.
Dec 15, 2021
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Make your holiday gatherings COVID-safer with rapid tests
Even with nearly 63% of Californians fully vaccinated, some public health officials worry that big gatherings this holiday season could lead to big outbreaks of COVID-19. But families looking to reunite have at least one ...
Nov 17, 2021
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