If you've accumulated a stockpile of rapid at-home COVID-19 tests over the course of the pandemic — including a handful of free products delivered by the government to your home — you may be surprised ...

When it comes to determining whether sniffles or a cough are COVID, people now rely more heavily on at-home tests to learn whether they have the virus. But can they trust that a self-test is providing ...

Have your COVID-19 rapid tests expired? Don’t toss them yet. Federal regulators have extended some tests’ expiration dates, meaning certain offerings are now usable for months longer. The reason for ...

Peek in medicine cabinets across the U.S. and you’ll find stacks of leftover COVID-19 tests. When symptoms arise, so do questions: When should I test? How accurate is it really? And what should I do ...

As COVID cases rise over the winter, health experts are finding that it’s taking longer to figure out if someone is infected. When COVID-19 antigen tests — also known as rapid tests — first came out, ...

COVID-19 rapid tests are easy to take—and then toss. So most people never report their results, which leaves health officials with an incomplete picture of how much virus is circulating and where. The ...

At-home Covid tests can be ordered for free starting Monday. Households can now order four free tests for home delivery at COVIDTests.gov. According to the government website, orders will begin ...

A false positive result is possible with a rapid COVID-19 test. It happens when a person does not have COVID-19 but still tests positive for the disease. People can use a rapid COVID-19 test at home ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boxes of iHealth COVID-19 antigen rapid test are distributed in January in Redondo Beach. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. After a recent COVID-19 exposure, Dr. Christina Astley tested positive on an at-home test—but just barely. The line signifying a ...

For instance, if you only get a very faint line, it might be hard to know whether or not that means your results are positive. I know how that feels firsthand. After more than two years of evading ...

At-home coronavirus screening has become a way of life for many Californians, but some medical experts are now cautioning that one test may not be enough to definitively determine whether someone is ...