As coronavirus rates rise in most parts of the country, many testing centers are inundated with new patients. Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the authorization of a brand new rapid COVID-19 test that people can take themselves at home.
“I think that it’s better to have a faster test than a slower one. People tend to abide by the public health recommendation to self-isolate if they have actual data in a reliable timeframe. The danger is that we’re asking people to do this at home. It’s not in a controlled setting like a laboratory,” says Dr. Amber Schmidtke, a public health microbiologist.
Dr. Schmidtke says there are still questions about how this new rapid at-home test will be interpreted by health officials.
They’re all fake and give rogue Governor’s the faux justification to lock us in our homes