{"id":8471,"date":"2025-01-08T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8471"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:07:19","slug":"covid-tests-do-at-home-tests-work-on-newer-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/08\/covid-tests-do-at-home-tests-work-on-newer-variants\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID tests: Do at-home tests work on newer variants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/diseases-and-conditions\/covid-tests-do-at-home-tests-work-on-newer-variants\">Harvard Health<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you develop respiratory symptoms, you may worry that you have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/diseases-and-conditions\/coronavirus-resource-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19<\/a>. One easy way to check is with an at-home COVID test. These tests are widely available at drugstores, supermarkets, and online retailers like Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a closer look at at-home COVID tests: how they work, when to test, and how to get free COVID test kits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do at-home COVID tests work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID-19 is caused by the SARS CoV-2 virus. At-home over-the-counter (OTC) COVID-19 tests look for proteins from the SARS CoV-2 virus. These proteins are called antigens. Results from rapid, at-home antigen tests are often available within 15 minutes. If you test positive, you are very likely to be infected. However, there is a higher chance of false negatives with antigen tests, which means that you could test negative and still have an active infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/diseases-and-conditions\/covid-tests-do-at-home-tests-work-on-newer-variants\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Health If you develop respiratory symptoms, you may worry that you have&nbsp;COVID-19. One easy way to check is with an at-home COVID test. These tests are widely available at drugstores, supermarkets, and online retailers like Amazon. Here&#8217;s a closer look at at-home COVID tests: how they work, when to test, and how to get [&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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"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\/8471","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=8471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8472,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions\/8472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}