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Free COVID Test Kits – As positive coronavirus cases are rising in the United States, the federal government has decided to deliver the third round of Free covid test kits. In the second week of May 2022, the Biden administration decided to deliver Free covid test kits to every eligible household in the United States. The government wants to test as many people as possible to contain any outbreaks. Health experts believe that the United States is suffering from the 6th COVID wave with the highly transmissible subvariant of omicron. How to Order free COVID Tests from the Government? First,...

More consumers will soon be able to test themselves for COVID-19 from the comfort of their own home. On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved two rapid antigen home tests for use in the U.S. Americans will soon be able to purchase Abbott's BinaxNOW and Quidel Quickvue tests at drug stores. The two options join a test made by Ellume, which received FDA approval in December, in the market. The two, newly-approved swab tests will be sold at a lower price point. The BinaxNOW and Quickvue tests are expected to be sold in two-packs for around $15-20; Ellume costs...

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- A promising new oral HIV test that uses fluid swabbed from the mouth to quickly and easily detect the virus that causes AIDS incorrectly diagnosed a quarter of the people who tested positive in San Francisco, city health officials found. Forty-seven people who tested positive after using the OraQuick Advance HIV test in city clinics were not infected at all, the San Francisco Department of Public Health said this week. Investigators learned of the errors after follow-up blood screenings gave the patients a clean bill of health, and health officials stopped using the test at...