Reporting Home Covid Test Results Can Be Confusing. Here’s How to Do It.

New York times ^ | 06/04/2022 | Knvul Sheikh

[ChicagoConservative27]

So, you got a positive result on your home test for Covid-19. What do you do next? In addition to everything else on your plate — isolating and notifying close contacts, taking time off work and rescheduling appointments — it’s good practice to report your test results.

And while home tests have made it easier and faster to screen yourself and get treatment, it is not always easy to report an illness. This confusion has meant that many cases are left out of official counts.

If you test positive at a clinic or another community testing site, those results must be reported to public health departments under the CARES Act. Some home tests taken under the supervision of a trained telehealth provider are also reported to government health officials. But if your rapid test doesn’t fall into one of these categories, it can be unclear what to do.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I'm so sick of this

[Cboldt]

As if I’m going to report to people who don’t need to know.

[ConservaTexan]

Please give us the data we can use as a cudgel to strip you of your rights...

[Theophilus]

To: Knvul Sheikh - Here’s a quarter, find someone who cares.

[Pollard]

home test for Covid-19

Never taken one, never will. Had covid, no jab, got through it. Done with it.

[Drew68]

Several of us at work have the sniffles. Probably seasonal allergies. Maybe Covid. Who knows?

None of us are getting tested. We're all so over this crap.

[goodnesswins]

Be a good comkie...report EVERYTHING to your government

[goodnesswins]

Commie

[rktman]

Mine are NOT reporting any issues as they rest comfortably in the medicine cabinet knowing they will never be used. Hey, our tax dollars so we should decide how to use or not use them. Purty sure ours will end up in the landfill before long. Unless someone has a way to use them for something else.

[cgbg]

The only way to win is not to play.

No tests.

No masks.

No vaccines.

Game over.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Slimes is still pretending the Fauci/China biological warfare virus is the bubonic plague.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Another place to test and not report is a cruise ship, on second thought, maybe not test either, just stay in your stateroom if you feel contageous.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

If you're taking the COVID test then you've failed the tyrrany test.

And if you've been put in a position where you have to take the test then that just means America as a whole has failed the tyrrany test.

[logi_cal869]

Imagine if there was a home test for the common cold.

Errr…

/s

[SamAdams76]

It's all a big scam. Those who fall for it are sheep.

We used to call this coming down with the common cold, or flu.

The best antidote is to get outside often, get some fresh air and not be so germ phobic. As George Carlin used to say, your immune system needs germs to practice on.

Get out there and live your lives. No more masks, no more vaccinations, no more social distancing.

[Still Thinking]

Wouldn’t that be the point of using a home test in the first place??

[M Kehoe]

Don’t care.

Had the Rona.

Survived.

Next.

5.56mm

[Mr Ramsbotham]

In addition to everything else on your plate — isolating and notifying close contacts, taking time off work and rescheduling appointments ....

Right.

[V_TWIN]

They want people to believe this is a permanent way of life now......sadly many mindless lemmings will comply.

Thinking for oneself much like common sense is becoming less and less common.

[metmom]

And while home tests have made it easier and faster to screen yourself and get treatment, it is not always easy to report an illness. This confusion has meant that many cases are left out of official counts.

Which is fine because with the way they fudge the numbers, they don’t need more.