Two types of COVID-19 tests, the rapid antigen test and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, are available in the United States. The PCR typically relies on lab testing and is still considered ...

As convenient as home rapid tests are, many people wonder about their accuracy. How often do people get false negatives? Is one brand better than another? With so many people testing negative on rapid ...

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Using clinical samples obtained from diagnostic labs throughout the U.S. from 2020 to 2023, the National Institutes of Health, through its Variant Task Force, analyzed the effectiveness of more than ...

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The latest surveillance data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has revealed that Covid prevalence is at a medium but ...

Home collection tests: The test kit prompts you to collect a sample at home (a nose or throat swab) and send it to a lab. The lab then performs a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test on the sample, ...

When it comes to determining whether sniffles or a cough are COVID, people now rely more heavily on at-home tests to learn whether they have the virus. But can they trust that a self-test is providing ...

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Using expired COVID-19 tests is not recommended. If you have old COVID tests in your medicine cabinet, it may be tempting to ...