Federal regulators authorized the first over-the-counter, at-home test Friday that can detect both the flu and COVID-19.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the Lucira COVID and flu test, which provides test results from a nasal swab in roughly 30 minutes, according to the FDA.
The test is similar to those for COVID and can be self-administered by anyone ages 14 and older or administered by an adult for children between ages 2 and 13.
According to the FDA, the Lucira test gave correct results for roughly 99 percent of both negative influenza A and B samples, 100 percent of negative COVID samples, 90 percent of positive influenza A samples and 88 percent of positive COVID samples.
All trial samples were taken from people with symptoms, FDA officials said.
“Today’s authorization of the first OTC test that can detect Influenza A and B, along with SARS-CoV-2, is a major milestone in bringing greater consumer access to diagnostic tests that can be performed entirely at home,” said Dr. Jeff Shuren, the director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
The authorization requires Lucira to continue collecting test samples to confirm its ability to correctly report positive and negative influenza B samples, as there are not enough cases of that flu strain for a clinical study.
The FDA approved a separate non-prescription COVID and flu test, manufactured by Labcorp, last spring.
That test allowed users to send a nasal swab to Labcorp’s laboratories for analysis, but did not provide at-home results.
Took tests before surgeries, other than that don’t need to stick something up my nose to confirm I’m not feeling good and should stay home.
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Commented years ago when announcement was made test kits were being produced, emergency rooms would be overwhelmed by those with positive tests DEMANDING treatment.
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governor Photo OP picture reminds me of a 5 year old stuffing foreign objects up their nose.
“Federal regulators authorized…”
I prefer to keep my DNA to myself, thanks.
Everything in the test kit stays in your home, including your DNA. Your privacy isn’t at risk.
Thank you for the clarification. I’m coming off of a year’s worth of weekly mandatory testing to keep my job and the samples were sent to a lab. In-home testing seems to be innocuous.
Are you for real? Weekly mandatory testing? Are you kidding or what? You people are really doing this? All I have is wow. I didn’t really think anyone was going along with this. I never even wore a mask, let alone shoved something in my nose for a HOAX. Wow, some people will be lost forever.
broken people cannot be fixed
@SAM Yes I am for real and so are my bills. I opted for testing rather than the jab in order to remain employed, and was fortunate to have the option to do so. Feel free to cast judgement on someone whom you do not know, nor of whose opinions on the issue you have any idea. I am not bothered.
I am happy for you, SAM, that you are able to live a life free of financial woes. There are others who have no choice but to work for a living. Quitting a 17-year-long “job” with a retirement pension was not an option for me. You reference “comfort”. I would be interested to hear your definition of comfort. Would it include barely making it paycheck to paycheck? Armchair quarterbacking life is easy when one is not affected by others’ situations. All of our freedoms are at risk. The source of the leverage being imposed upon us comes from an entity that seeks to divide us.
My only compliance was to refuse the shot and take the alternative offered.
If I were to quit my job and sue, I would ask you two questions:
1) How would I afford a lawyer to bring a law suit against something that quite clearly has no hope of winning?
2) If you saw me living on the street with no money, would you help me, or just scoff at me as another homeless person?
Let’s let this subject drop with the understanding that we all have individual circumstances which need to be addressed in the best way possible in order to go on with our lives in as normal a fashion as we can.
dude makes my skin crawl…
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this is a FEDERAL Drug Admin thing….
Why are we imposed upon with his mug????????????
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“C” YUCK !
who else can run on the dim ticket for 2024? as repellent as he is, as corrupt, as oily, as creepy as he is, he represents the best the dim can put up. A nuisance/sanders/warren/harris battle coming up.
I’ve gone my whole life not needing to know if I actually had the flu OR Covid.
Yea I get sick so what don’t need some test to tell me which I have.
FDA: Federal Delusional A…….
So that’s how Gavin picks his appointed officials….. I always wondered about that.
Looking at that Schnoz he needs that Q Tip Andrew Cuomo was told to use by his brother at CNN. And if I was having a Cocaine party I would not invite Gavin.
Newsom testing for cranialrectumitis.
No need to wait for test results.
Who friggen cares???? For my entire life we got sick and we got better without the doom and gloom of wondering what it is. This is stupid….. I have had covid and influenza in the last two years and the flu was far worse than covid “got tested (had to), the only reason I know the difference” . We need to grow up and move on with life and get back to where we had sense and could take care of ourselves. Yes if you feel like you cannot breathe or have a fever for an extended period you should see the Dr. as pneumonia needs treatment but otherwise we get sick and we get stronger. Take care of the elderly and impaired and for the healthy simply get on with life. Adult time now……..
In the US, 526 people died of TB in 2019. I don’t think that number qualifies as a pandemic.
You People who participate in this are constructing your own prisons.
Instead of flipping me off on the roadways…..perhaps you should learn the value of the word: NO and begin to stand up for yourself and Figure out who the true enemy is.
‘Died Suddenly’, ‘Died Unexpectedly’ etc etc etc and Everything now causes strokes and myocarditis. We Know What the cause of all these new “mysterious” deaths are and warned you since December 2020.
They are lost forever. They may as well just get in the coffin now. They are completely gone already.
The Scamdemic continues!
Please provide us with what companies are still requiring “testing”, I would like to know so I can be sure I’m not using any of their goods or services.
BTW, I just listened to a podcast…….it was about a Doctor who has treated over 500 Kaiser Nurses because of the miracle juice injury.
It’s really a shame that those 500 were too coward to speak up.
UCB
This is the small print from the Lucira website: This home test kit has not been FDA cleared or approved. This home test kit has been authorized by FDA under EUA. This home test kit has been authorized only for the testing of nasal swabs for detection of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2, not for any other viruses or pathogens. This home test kit is only authorized for the duration of the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of IVDs for detection and/or diagnosis of COVID-19 under Section 564(b)(1) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360bbb-3(b)(1), unless the declaration is terminated or revoked sooner.
The ’emergency’ ends on February 28 in California…why is the FDA even approving these tests? Never again will I take another Covid test…
The news release on the FDA website states clearly that the Lucira home test has been authorized under a EUA. It is to be used to test for both Covid-19 and influenza A and B.
It’s unclear how many of these tests will become available, since Lucira filed for bankruptcy last Wednesday.
You will get the flu. You will get Covid. You will get whatever is next.
The End.
Where is a test for the common cold?? LOL