{"id":2151,"date":"2023-01-10T17:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T23:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2023-01-10T17:09:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T23:09:46","slug":"11-rapid-at-home-covid-19-tests-and-where-to-find-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/10\/11-rapid-at-home-covid-19-tests-and-where-to-find-them\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Rapid At-Home Covid-19 Tests\u2014and Where to Find Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/best-rapid-at-home-covid-19-test-kits\/\">Wired<\/a>) The pandemic isn&#8217;t\u00a0over. Regardless of how small your circle is, it\u2019s still\u00a0<em>very<\/em>\u00a0possible to contract and spread Covid-19. To help prevent this, it\u2019s important to get tested regularly (along with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/covid-19-us-vaccination-guide\/\">getting vaccinated<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/best-disposable-face-masks-n95-kn95-kf94-surgical\/\">wearing an N95 face mask<\/a>). There are free testing sites across the country, but those pressed for time can trade in the long lines for rapid at-home Covid tests, which can provide results in 15 minutes or so.\u00a0 With hundreds of options, it\u2019s tough to know which one to buy (if they\u2019re even in stock). Below, we\u2019ve rounded up options\u2014based on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-emergency-use-authorizations-medical-devices\/in-vitro-diagnostics-euas-antigen-diagnostic-tests-sars-cov-2\" target=\"_blank\">FDA authorization<\/a>\u00a0and availability\u2014to help make the search easier. You can also now order the third round of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-to-get-free-covid-19-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\">free at-home tests<\/a>\u00a0from the US government (if you haven\u2019t already). Members of our team have used some, but not all, of these tests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"vt LV twPVeP u\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Wired) The pandemic isn&#8217;t\u00a0over. Regardless of how small your circle is, it\u2019s still\u00a0very\u00a0possible to contract and spread Covid-19. To help prevent this, it\u2019s important to get tested regularly (along with\u00a0getting vaccinated\u00a0and\u00a0wearing an N95 face mask). There are free testing sites across the country, but those pressed for time can trade in the long lines for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-diagnostics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}