{"id":7976,"date":"2024-10-29T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T19:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7976"},"modified":"2024-10-29T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T19:23:49","slug":"new-covid-tests-are-here-they-test-for-flu-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/29\/new-covid-tests-are-here-they-test-for-flu-too\/","title":{"rendered":"New Covid Tests Are Here. They Test for Flu, Too."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/25\/well\/covid-flu-combination-tests.html\">NYT<\/a> Yet again this winter, millions of Americans will wonder if a nagging cough or body aches is a sign they\u2019re coming down with Covid or the flu. This time, they\u2019ll have an expanded array of tools to get an answer without leaving the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are now nine at-home tests that can detect the coronavirus and influenza at the same time. Many of the tests, which can be sold over the counter, were just approved in the last six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really a big shift in what\u2019s available,\u201d said Dr. Gregory Martin, a professor at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration approved most of the Covid-and-flu combination tests under emergency protocols in 2023 and 2024. Earlier this month, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/fda-authorizes-marketing-first-home-flu-and-covid-19-combination-test-outside-emergency-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agency also authorized<\/a>\u00a0the first of these combination tests, made by the health care equipment company Healgen, under its traditional, more rigorous approval process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/25\/well\/covid-flu-combination-tests.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"wIazIkqCHaRVun HK P s BlOb vPO \">wIazIkqCHaRVun HK P s BlOb vPO <\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Yet again this winter, millions of Americans will wonder if a nagging cough or body aches is a sign they\u2019re coming down with Covid or the flu. This time, they\u2019ll have an expanded array of tools to get an answer without leaving the house. There are now nine at-home tests that can detect the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"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\/7976","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=7976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7977,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions\/7977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}