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Rapid tests are not as sensitive, meaning it's possible for patients who are infected with COVID to receive a negative result. WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden plans to announce on Tuesday that his ...

At present, the FDA lists over forty emergency-use approved at-home COVID tests on its website from over thirty different brands. Some tests are rapid at-home antigen tests that give results in as ...

Welcome to what some experts say is the country’s second largest COVID wave since the start of the pandemic. In the past few weeks, there’s been a striking increase in new cases, hospitalizations, and ...

More than 280,000 Ohioans are blind or have low vision. Ohio has announced a new partnership with a popular mobile app to help those Ohioans self-administer COVID-19 tests. At-home rapid COVID-19 ...

Yes, the experts agree. If you performed the test correctly, a faint line on a COVID test is still a positive result. "Any line is a positive," Rhoads says. "That's not to say that it's easy to ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its fourth year, a negative result on a little plastic at-home test feels a bit less comforting than it once did. Still, you dutifully swab your nostrils before dinner ...

American households will once again be able to order free Covid-19 tests by mail, the White House announced on Thursday, part of the Biden administration’s wider efforts to stave off the virus as ...

The FDA has extended the shelf life for some COVID-19 tests. Now that allergy season is here, many are finding themselves with symptoms asking: Is it allergies or a cold? COVID? Something else? Since ...