In 2022, We Need to Shift Our COVID-19 Focus to Testing
that people can perform themselves. How easily people can learn their COVID-19 status will determine how well the world can control COVID-19. The more people who know if they are positive, the better they can practice mitigation measures like self-isolating and
U.S. health officials have increasingly stressed the importance of self testing in recent weeks, as more people boarded planes, trains and buses to gather for the holidays. Conducting a self-test, which provides results in about 15 to 20 minutes, is a good way to reduce your chances of spreading the virus to anyone else.
The CDC initially didn’t allow academic or commercial labs to perform SARS-CoV-2 tests because the agency wanted to ensure that a standard, scientifically validated assay was used to verify all COVID-19 cases and provide an accurate picture of how much virus was in the country, and where it was circulating. The first test kits the CDC sent to state health departments, however, were unfortunatelyby a lab contaminant and fixing the problem slowed down U.S. testing capacity in early 2020.
But testing remains out of reach for many Americans. While the National Health Service in the U.K. makes test kits available without charge, sending packs of kits directly to people’s homes, in the U.S., Americans have to purchase them for about $20 to $40 online or at pharmacies. In December, President Joe Biden announced that
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