Consumer to home Covid19 testing kit from Every Well-Available March 23

[KeratinPearls]

Overnight Billionaires?

Everlywell announces Monday launch of solution to get tested and diagnosed for COVID-19 from home

/PRNewswire/ -- Everlywell, the digital health company which offers consumers access to at-home lab tests, announces that an at-home collection kit with...

www.prnewswire.com

But Public Health England (PHE) advises against home testing.

PHE Advises Against Using COVID-19 Rapid Home Test Kits

Public Health England says there's no evidence that some coronavirus test kits on sale to the public are reliable.

www.medscape.com

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[WEBB PINKERTON]

Hopefully without black turtlenecks

 

[deleted915203]

Overnight Billionaires?

Everlywell announces Monday launch of solution to get tested and diagnosed for COVID-19 from home

/PRNewswire/ -- Everlywell, the digital health company which offers consumers access to at-home lab tests, announces that an at-home collection kit with...

www.prnewswire.com

But Public Health England (PHE) advises against home testing.

PHE Advises Against Using COVID-19 Rapid Home Test Kits

Public Health England says there's no evidence that some coronavirus test kits on sale to the public are reliable.

www.medscape.com

If I get a respiratory illness in the next few weeks, I don't plan on getting tested. I would just quarantine myself and assume that I got the coronavirus.

 

[Iceman24]

If I get a respiratory illness in the next few weeks, I don't plan on getting tested. I would just quarantine myself and assume that I got the coronavirus.

But wait, this way we will loose a lot of public health data...

 

[Allegri]

How are they going to confirm which of the (very small proportion) of positive results are true positives if everyone with "symptoms" is ordering and testing themselves?

 

[deleted915203]

But wait, this way we will loose a lot of public health data...

I wouldn't want to spread it to any of the health-care workers - I think they will be thankful for that.

 

[deleted915203]

But wait, this way we will loose a lot of public health data...

Earlier this week, my views were considered to be "extremist". Today, I am in the "mainstream".


In strategic shift, doctors in America's two largest cities are told to skip some coronavirus testing

"Health officials in New York City and Los Angeles County are signaling a change in local strategy when it comes to coronavirus testing, recommending that doctors avoid testing patients except in cases where a test result would significantly change the course of treatment.

A news release from the Los Angeles Department of Public Health this week advised doctors not to test those experiencing only mild respiratory symptoms unless “a diagnostic result will change clinical management or inform public health response.”

March 21, 2020 coronavirus news

www.cnn.com

 

[Iceman24]

I wouldn't want to spread it to any of the health-care workers - I think they will be thankful for that.

My message was a sarcasm.