/PRNewswire/ Digital diagnostics company Ellume, applauds the Biden administration s action to make its Ellume COVID-19 Home Test (ECHT) available at no.
/PRNewswire/ Digital diagnostics company Ellume, applauds the Biden administration s action to make its Ellume COVID-19 Home Test (ECHT) available at no.
Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Andy Slavitt announced this very encouraging news during a Monday press conference featuring members of the Biden Amdministration’s iteration of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
Slavitt noted that the Department of Defense and HHS jointly announced today the country’s first over the counter at home Covid test. The test is made by a company called Ellum and is an over-the-counter self-performed test kit that can detect covid with roughly 95% accuracy, within 15 minutes.
“They could be used if you feel symptoms of covid, and also for screening for people without symptoms so they could safely go to work, to school, and to events,” Slavitt noted “the test is performed in what is called a mid-turbinate nasal swab,” which it means it is less invasive swab seen in the news. “After you take the swab, you put the sample into a digital analyzer, which will send a result to your smartphone in about 1
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