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Posted On: 03/02/2021 7:17:14 PM
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The QuickVue At-Home COVID-19 Test is authorized for prescription home use with self-collected anterior nasal (nares) swabs from individuals ages 14 and older or individuals ages 8 and older with swabs collected by an adult. The test is authorized for individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider within the first six days of symptom onset.
Yet another decision to take a good rapid test and decrease accessibility and increase cost by requiring a (useless) physicians prescription.
NO PERSON SHOULD NEED A MEDICAL PRESCRIPTION FOR A #COVID19 TEST
Testing during a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is a public health good.
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U.S. FDA
@US_FDA
· Mar 1
Today, FDA issued an EUA for the Quidel QuickVue At-Home #COVID19 Test, another antigen test where certain individuals can rapidly collect and test their sample at home, without needing to send a sample to a laboratory for analysis. https://fda.gov/news-events/press-announcemen...id-19-test
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Michael Mina
@michaelmina_lab
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The only ones who find prescription to be useful are... the E-med consult companies that slap a random MD signature on every test - in return for what one might imagine is a large payment from insurance companies. I wish FDA would break down barriers, not create and enforce them
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Yet another decision to take a good rapid test and decrease accessibility and increase cost by requiring a (useless) physicians prescription.
NO PERSON SHOULD NEED A MEDICAL PRESCRIPTION FOR A #COVID19 TEST
Testing during a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is a public health good.
Quote Tweet
U.S. FDA
@US_FDA
· Mar 1
Today, FDA issued an EUA for the Quidel QuickVue At-Home #COVID19 Test, another antigen test where certain individuals can rapidly collect and test their sample at home, without needing to send a sample to a laboratory for analysis. https://fda.gov/news-events/press-announcemen...id-19-test
Show this thread
Michael Mina
@michaelmina_lab
·
21h
The only ones who find prescription to be useful are... the E-med consult companies that slap a random MD signature on every test - in return for what one might imagine is a large payment from insurance companies. I wish FDA would break down barriers, not create and enforce them
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