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Don’t throw out that seemingly outdated at-home rapid Covid-19 test just yet. According to an updated list of expiration dates, it may still be good. The Food and Drug Administration has extended the expiration dates for some authorized at-home, over-the-counter Covid test kits in recent months, meaning some unused tests may...

“It’s really shocking that it was only until 2021 for the FDA to actually issue an alert,” said Uché Blackstock, an emergency medicine physician and CEO of Advancing Health Equity. “And even in that alert last year, they didn’t even mention racial bias or race or racism in it.” The...

According to the state Department of Public Health’s daily report on Thursday, there were 1,915 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Massachusetts, for a total of 1,765,659 since the pandemic began.   There were also 140 new probable cases of coronavirus, for a total of 159,043 statewide.  The DPH said that as of...

Two more Kentucky counties that border Fayette entered the red zone for high COVID-19 community levels when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched its Thursday night update. At high community levels, the CDC recommends people mask in public and especially indoors around others. “If you are in...

According to the most recent data released by the Mississippi Department of Health, Itawamba County is among 31 counties in the state currently rating "high" on the CDC's COVID-19 community level ranking system.That level carries with it recommendations for slowing the spread of the disease, including a return to wearing...

image: Jeffrey SoRelle, M.D. view more  Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center *Click here to watch "The hunt for COVID-19 variants" video Last year, pathologist Jeffrey SoRelle, M.D., and colleagues developed CoVarScan, a rapid COVID-19 test that detects the signatures of eight hotspots on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Now, after testing CoVarScan on more...