And……nothing to report. Glad to hear people are receiving them!
At-Home COVID-19 Tests
Free at-home COVID-19 tests ordered on www.covidtests.gov and delivered by USPS. Limit of 1 order per household. Each order contains 4 individual tests.
What were you expecting?
We got ours today. Ordered January 18.
Nope—ordered 1/18 but nothing received. I expect I will eventually receive the 4 tests we ordered in some brand FDA gave a EUA.
These so called “free” test kits are never free; we’ll pay for them in higher premiums next year for sure.
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And it’s free to insurance companies when people get and spread Covid?
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(medicare reimbursement) Presidential orders have to be funded from somewhere. A president can make orders that don’t cost anything effective immediately, but if they involve money going out of a program, it has to be funded.
It takes two test swabs if you don’t have symptoms of Covid to see if you are a potential spreader. So these two kits will be good only once for my husband and myself. We are going to use them to make sure we are not spreaders when we see our grandson. (But I was able to order more kits through Target).
The box says that if you have symptoms one test swab only need be used.
Well that’s one round you don’t have to pay for!
This is the first I’ve ever heard of needing to swab with two samples for one result - is that what you’re saying? Anyone else follow that protocol???
No.
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I have not heard nor read of using 2 swabs if you have no symptoms and we haven’t done that.
I haven’t either. The tests we had you swabbed both nostrils for 15 sec with the same swab. I would think it would be better to do two tests one day apart vs two immediately after the other
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BinaxNow test kit suggests doing 2 tests at least 36 hours apart for an accurate result.
If I had a mild case of maybe-Covid, not sure if I’d bother to test. Hmmm… unless I was needing to be at church, lots of elderly people there (we wear masks but still I worry).
I can give two examples of where Test kitss were good to have on hand.
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Our daughter, who wanted to spend Christmas with us, had been exposed to Covid. Some of her friends there had tested positive, some not. She needed one more test to be sure no Covid, but she had no more test kits. We had her drive to our place and test in the driveway. Yay, 15 min later she was negative and came inside. Without the test, we likely would have had a lonely Christmas just the two of us.
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Friends who live an hour away had invited us for New Year’s Eve dinner and sleepover. Alas, they had been exposed to Covid. We were all on the fence over how cautious to be, almost cancelled. Instead we brought two tests with us to their front door (which actually was a funny thing, since hubby sent me to the wrong house - phew they were not home). They tested negative and we had a fabulous time continuing with our plans.
I think that the point of the program was to distribute at least some test kits to every household that requests it, not to assure an immediate, adequate supply of tests to all. Given the logistics and the available supply at the beginning of the initiative, I think they did pretty well, although I feel for those of you who didn’t get a delivery yet.
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Got mine today!
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You are not just testing for yourself but for others. If you are positive then you should quarantine yourself even if it’s mild.
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DH was going to be with his parent who was in the hospital. He had to test before he was allowed in. So…he tested right before he left here, and then again three days later. Which was the recommendation of the hospital. He had no exposure that he knew about….but neither have most of the folks we know who have tested positive recently.
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