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At-Home COVID-19 Testing: Convenience, Cost, Caveats
Experts agree that COVID-19 testing has had its challenges and has evolved over the past year. It s a very, very significant day, Kisha Mitchell Richards, MD, director of pathology and laboratory at Greenwich Hospital, in Greenwich, CT, said during a March 11 webinar on COVID-19. The webinar was sponsored by the College of American Pathologists (CAP). It s 1 year ago today that the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and basically set in stone a year that was going to change our lives probably forever, Richards said.
During that time, PCR testing became more of a household term, community and preoperative testing changed and expanded, and the FDA granted emergency use authorization for more at-home tests. Among them is the first molecular-based at-home test, which was authorized last week.
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Though the push is on to make at-home COVID-19 tests much more widely available, patients and their clinicians should be aware of downsides that could diminish their accuracy, experts from the College of American Pathologists warned at a news conference Thursday.
They cautioned that in addition to being uncomfortable to administer at home and possibly not covered by insurance, such tests may produce inadequate sample material and could be damaged by improper handling, thus producing false results.
It s also unclear whether any or some of the at-home tests particularly those detecting viral antigens are capable of picking up all of the variants that are increasingly circulating around the country, they said.