It’s (almost) the holiday season, and this year your festivities may include rapid at-home COVID tests
Photo: Robin Utrecht/Shutterstock It’s the holiday season, and this year your festivities may include rapid at-home COVID tests. While the U.S. has lagged behind other countries when it comes to testing, with the Omicron variant spreading, the Biden administration has announced plans to make at-home tests far more widely available, including requiring private insurers to cover them starting next year.
You can buy at-home tests at a pharmacy or online. Make sure that the test you’re buying is FDA approved: There are currently only 14 authorized tests on the market, all of which are listed on the FDA website. If you’re buying tests online, Ratner recommends double-checking that it’s authorized . When it comes to COVID-19 tests, PCR ones remain the “gold-standard”, Ratner says. They are much more sensitive than antigen tests, and they have the ability to pick up “minute amounts of RNA” from the virus long before there are enough traces for a person to be contagious. While PCR tests are useful for diagnosing people who may have been exposed, it can still take up to three days to get results, meaning they’re not great for screening large numbers of people quickly.
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