"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." TAKING A COVID-19 TEST is probably your first instinct when you wake up with a fever or sore throat or ...

As COVID-19 case numbers have been slowly rising across the United States, Americans are turning to at-home rapid antigen tests to suss out whether they are sick from a good-old fashioned cold, the ...

SAN ANTONIO — Three years after the beginning of the pandemic, masking guidelines have eased. However, now is not the time to let your guard down. That's especially the case when it comes to testing, ...

It was late on a Sunday night that my teenage son began complaining of symptoms that sounded like COVID -- headache, body aches, fever. By Monday morning, he was feeling much worse, so we gave him the ...

Many of us are hearing stories lately about friends, neighbors and family members testing positive for the COVID-19 virus, even though official case numbers are likely being undercounted. Health ...

On the same day that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased COVID-19 guidelines, the Food and Drug Administration issued a statement warning that at-home rapid antigen tests can deliver ...

At-home coronavirus screening has become a way of life for many Californians, but some medical experts are now cautioning that one test may not be enough to definitively determine whether someone is ...

It has been over three years since Covid-19 cases were first diagnosed in the United States. And while President Joe Biden announced last week that he intends to end the state of national emergency ...

Nearly half of Slovakia's entire population took COVID-19 swabs on Saturday, the first day of two-day nationwide testing the government hopes will help reverse a fast rise in infections without a hard ...

PCR swab tests that look for viral RNA have become the gold standard for identifying infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but their results aren't 100% accurate. Researchers report that testing for ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. You’ve been exposed to COVID and are starting to get symptoms. But after a couple of days of testing with rapid ...

There are three different ways to test for COVID-19: PCR tests, antigen tests and antibody tests. Each method is best for a different stage of COVID-19 infection. Used in sequence, all three methods ...