What's the Deal With COVID Testing Now? Doctors Explain When to Test, How to Get Them and More

There's still a lot of confusion around the best time to take a COVID test and where to get them. Here, experts share their ...
Time

What’s the Point of PCR Tests Anymore?

If you had COVID-19 symptoms in 2020, you probably would have masked up and braved a visit to a laboratory, doctor’s office, or clinic to get a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. A health care ...
AOL

You can still be contagious with COVID if you have a negative test — here's why

As the nation experiences what many experts believe is the second-largest wave of COVID infections since the pandemic started, many Americans will be checking to make sure they don’t have the ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Some Bay Area families wait 7+ hours for PCR COVID testing as stores sell out of at-home tests

NEWARK, Calif. (KGO) -- Desperate attempts Sunday night to try to get PCR COVID tests as the holiday weekend wraps up, there are reports of seven-hour long lines in the East Bay city of Newark. This ...
Courier-Post

COVID stats rise as new variant surges

Tissues and cough medicine may be under your tree this season. COVID cases and severity is spiking as cold and flu season rages on, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking the ...
NBC Chicago

When should you test for COVID? What if you're positive? Here's an explainer

With flu and RSV seasons set to soon heighten, when should you test for COVID if you are sick and how often? The federal government recently resumed its program of shipping out free COVID tests to ...