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Last week, I was about to go on a date, and because I'm severely immunocompromised, we agreed he would take a COVID test using one of my rapid home PCR tests. It was a courtesy—he felt perfectly fine— ...
Free at-home Covid tests can be ordered starting Monday. Here’s what you should know about when to test and what the results mean as new variants circulate.
A new COVID variant is spreading. Here's what you need to know about the incubation period, symptoms and when to take a test.
If the repeat test is still negative, and it’s important for you to find out whether you have Covid-19, you could go take a PCR test.
If you test negative for COVID, can you be contagious? It depends. Here's what to know about COVID testing in 2024, and what your COVID test results may mean.
It’s a type of nucleic acid test. That makes it similar in some way to lab-based PCR tests, which also detect the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID.
There are three different ways to test for COVID-19: PCR tests, antigen tests and antibody tests. Here are the differences.
COVID-19 PCR tests are not linked to human or reproductive cloning, according to Matthew Binnicker, the director of clinical virology at the Mayo Clinic.
New Mexico doing away with some COVID-19 PCR test sites, but community health advocates pushing state to keep them With COVID hospitalizations and deaths on the rise, petition calls on state ...