By Nia Harden, WRAL reporter Beginning this week, North Carolina will begin screening everyone who works or lives in private skilled nursing facilities for COVID-19. Nursing homes are hot spots for COVID-19 outbreaks in North Carolina and across the country. The state updates coronavirus data weekly for “congregational living environments,” …
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) – While the COVID-19 test sites in the Houston area are closed over the holiday weekend, at least one site welcomed patients on Sunday morning. Bloom Labs opened a test site at 1615 South Loop 610 and was offering the least invasive saliva test to patients. Laboratory …
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Kroger is giving employees access to free home coronavirus testing, the company announced this week. The supermarket chain said Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted them an emergency use authorization for their COVID-19 home kit. Kroger said the goal is to process up to 60,000 tests per …
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DETROIT – Beaumont Health officials said they have developed a new test that can detect the coronavirus (COVID-19) in saliva, urine or blood in 30-45 minutes. Researchers from the Aikens Research Center said the results were highly accurate. They said the test is relatively cheap to create and run. “We …
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By Julian Grace, WRAL presenter / reporter Raleigh, NC – As North Carolina and other states work to reopen safely, it will require millions more coronavirus tests per day. An idea on the table is something called a group test. Two infectious disease experts told WRAL News that they both …
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