Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By now, most of us know the basics of taking a COVID-19 test at home. With cases, test positivity and hospitalizations due to ...

NEW YORK -- Millions of Americans have purchased rapid COVID-19 tests online or at local stores and signed up to receive test kits through a free government program. Unlike conventional, lab-processed ...

A single negative result from an at-home rapid test, which takes about 15 minutes, is no guarantee that a person is not ill or carrying the virus. Testing may come either too soon, before enough virus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts are monitoring increases in COVID-19 cases in the U.S. driven by new, highly infectious variants. So take a moment to make ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — As the highly transmissible coronavirus (COVID-19) omicron variant has resulted in record outbreaks, many are turning to rapid at-home test kits to get results quickly and ...

Slate is making its essential coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Earlier this month, Jacklyn Grace Lacey tested herself for COVID-19 using a home kit.

For instance, if you only get a very faint line, it might be hard to know whether or not that means your results are positive. I know how that feels firsthand. After more than two years of evading ...