The FDA has issued emergency authorizations to 12 antibody tests for the virus. As federal officials gradually begin reopening the country, expanded testing is central to the conversation. Until now, ...

The pandemic’s early weeks, marked by empty streets and overwhelmed ICUs, illuminated a critical need for accurate and accessible COVID-19 testing. In April 2020, Anne Wyllie, a research scientist at ...

Results are detected within just a few minutes, the agency said. The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 test that uses breath samples -- the first of ...

Xprize has unveiled a new $5 million competition to encourage the development of rapid COVID-19 testing. The non-profit organization on Tuesday announced the Xprize Rapid COVID Testing competition to ...

The federal government may destroy its remaining supply of COVID-19 tests. The US government has been helping people detect COVID-19 at home for several years with free COVID test kits delivered by ...

A home COVID-19 test kit is displayed on Feb. 3, 2022, in Seattle. After South Carolina's public health agency closed its mass COVID-19 testing locations early this month, health experts have been ...

The United States government has discontinued its free at-home COVID-19 test program after four years. The program, which began in 2021, shipped over 900 million tests directly to U.S. households.

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Engineers can adapt weather forecasting models to give individuals a personalized assessment of their risk of exposure to COVID-19 or other diseases. Techniques used in weather forecasting can be ...