Posted on 04/13/2023 6:43:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
You may not have to throw out your expired at-home COVID-19 test as many of the dates have been moved past their printed expiration dates.
The printed expiration dates were determined by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved shelf-life of about four to six months, but further data shows that they may continue to be accurate for months longer.
Among the at-home COVID-19 tests with extended shelf lives are brands such as Abbot BinaxNow, iHealth Rapid Antigen Test, CareStart by Access Bio.
Multiple rounds of at-home tests were mailed out to U.S. residents for free, typically from iHealth, which are now extended to a 15-month shelf-life. Residents who have not ordered their free rounds of COVID-19 at-home tests can still do so through the United States Postal Service.
The extended shelf lives vary, with some extending up to 24 months, such as the Flowflex COVID-19 Antigen home test, Celltrion DiaTrust at-home test and Siemens CLINITEST rapid test.
The FDA said it will continue to update the expiration dates of at-home rapid tests, but the current status of all tests can be found on the FDA website.
Both California and Los Angeles COVID-19 state of emergency declarations expired on March 31. Despite the end of the emergency regulations, health insurance providers are still required to pay for up to eight over-the-counter COVID-19 tests per month.
Those tests were always bogus...
It’s easier to fool someone, then to convince them they have been fooled.
***NEWS FLASH***
The Covid Emergency has officially ended. The people still pushing this are grifters trying to cash in on the easily duped gullible chumps.
Ppffftttt.
We had a couple tests that expired last October. Used them this week when we suspected Covid and all tests but one came back as positive and that’s the one I used on the morning of Easter Sunday when I noticed a tickle in the back of my throat. When my symptoms started getting worse that night, the second test in the kit showed positive.
You must have recovered very fast.
Which when you do an “at-home” pregnancy test that comes up positive...docs want you to do another test to confirm at the office.
They are fallible.
Same with the “colorectal” (poo in a box) tests recently.
My Gastro doc said they had so many false positives...it was ridiculous. Scared people to death!
It’s like Theranos 2.0.
Such a mismanaged sham from start to finish.
I was mandatorily tested twice last year, in a 7 month period, with the rapid swab tests prior to having procedures done, and tested positive twice. Had no symptoms whatsoever either time. Had to postpone my cataract surgery in November last year because of the second positive test. The same day I went to the facility for the rapid swab test two days prior to my cataract surgery, a brand new rapid home test showed me as negative earlier that morning. New York State won't let you submit a home test result unless you've gotten the shots, which makes no sense to me. The tests aren't accurate...never were.
Mine were. Just sharing my wife’s, daughter, SIL and my experience.
Today is the first day I’ve felt normal. Took the dog for a walk and was coughing up phlegm but I’m on the upside of it.
Lick your finger and stick it....
In the Wind .
If you have no symptoms, your body is going well to keep the virus under control. Also if you not coughing and exuding body fluids into air, you are spreading lot less virus material than people with serious symptoms.so don’t obsess over testing kits.
Only if you have symptoms you should bother to test.
Thanks for posting this. I had no idea they were extended. I was going to toss them out.
“Also if you not coughing and exuding body fluids into air, you are spreading lot less virus material than people with serious symptoms.”
Actually it is counterintuitive but with COVID, people are most contagious the day before they have symptoms and the first day they have symptoms.
Gotta keep people living in fear.
Good for you.
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