Reporting of home COVID-19 tests.

[Yonnie3]

Link to tweet

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Va Dept of Health
@VDHgov
Want to help Virginia count COVID-19 cases more accurately? Well, now there’s a way to report your at-home COVID-19 test! @NIH
started a new initiative where you can report your at-home test results SAFELY and PRIVATELY. Get started at http://ow.ly/ujNM50M9Uw7

https://www.makemytestcount.org/

The website has the capability to report both negative and positive home tests as well as brand of tests. It also asks for demographic information. It does not ask name or address (five digit ZIP is asked).

At-home COVID-19 tests allow us to quickly and easily find out whether we’re infected with the virus. But if we don’t share our test results, the people who work to keep us safe from this disease won’t know how fast the virus is spreading, or where surges are happening. Without that information, they can’t do the work they need to do to keep us and our communities safe.

The data from MakeMyTestCount can help public health teams do that work - while keeping your personal test results private and anonymous.

Sharing your at-home test result makes your test count. When you share your result, you help keep yourself and your community safe from COVID-19 - both now and in the future.

[SheltieLover]

1. I received my tests yesterday. There is info on box how to report pos results.

Happy Holidays!

[Yonnie3]

3. TJ got some yesterday

I didn't read the box except to note that they are old. Made in March 2022 and expire March 2023.

[SheltieLover]

5. I couldn't find an ex date on mine!

Just a bunch of codes, none of which resembled a date.

[Yonnie3]

4. You don't have to interact with people to test.

Therefore it is a safer way to test.

[SheltieLover]

7. And a quick, easy, free to confirm dx so infected people can isolate.

[Yonnie3]

6. Oh, I just noticed this is your first post

Welcome to DU.

[SheltieLover]

8. Welcome to DU

[marble falls]

9. The same way knowing one might have an STD makes one safer ...

... What is your real concern?

[Yonnie3]

10. I am eagerly waiting for clarification.

[marble falls]

11. Hey Yonnie! Merry Christmas, brother!

[Yonnie3]

12. and to you too!

[Eliot Rosewater]

13. Siemens Clinitest are the ones I got in the mail and there is a problem.

The tip you add to it after stirring the swab has a filter in it and I had to push so hard to get drops out that the tip came off and splattered all over the counter and me.

So I called the company and they confirmed that there is indeed a filter there and this could happen, so they are sending me more.

The filter is not needed as I also have FlowFlex brand that I got at Costco and it has the same system, sort of, and no filter on that type.


And if the filter is needed for some reason, they have to redesign it.

[Yonnie3]

14. We have Quidel QuickVue this time.

It is a lot larger box than the earlier supplied tests. It has a foam swabs and vials of a reagent. After the swab is inserted into the vial, stirred and left sitting in the reagent one minute it is removed. A test strip is then inserted into the vial which must be supported upright. After ten minutes the strip is compared to printing on the instructions. No transferring of solution or drops in a tray. The vacuum formed plastic insert has a pocket to hold the vial during the test.

This is very different that the earlier tests.