MedPage Today — March 12, 2021
Though the push is on to make at-home COVID-19 tests much more widely available, patients and their clinicians should be aware of downsides that could diminish their accuracy, experts from the College of American Pathologists warned at a news conference Thursday.
They cautioned that in addition to being uncomfortable to administer at home and possibly not covered by insurance, such tests may produce inadequate sample material and could be damaged by improper handling, thus producing false results.