coronavirus tests

The Postal Service says it’s already delivered more than 270 million kits as part of the Biden administration’s plan to make testing universal.

Officials say fewer than 100,000 orders a day are coming in for the packages of four free rapid tests per household. The White House is sensitive to criticism that plan may have come too late.

Inquiries lead from one federal office to the next, with no clear answers. At one Army Contracting Command, a protocol office employee says that “voicemail has been down for months.”

The Biden administration said that Medicare recipients will be able to get up to eight tests a month, free of charge.

For some people, getting a positive coronavirus test could mean loss of income or other life disruptions. Doctors worry about growing disincentives to test and how this could prolong the pandemic.

The Biden administration says Americans should be able to order tests online later this month. Those who are eligible can get eight free over-the-counter at-home tests a month.

The promising antiviral drugs to treat COVID can halt hospitalizations and deaths, but only if they’re given to patients within three to five days of their first symptoms, a narrow window many people won’t meet. Here’s why.

You probably won't be testing everyone at your Thanksgiving table for COVID because the tests are expensive and hard to find. The federal government is partly to blame.

The federal regulatory agency says the recall stems from a manufacturing defect found in some 2 million tests.

Doctor's Hospital in Sarasota has a new line of defense against the coronavirus. Meet Buffy, a 2-year-old Labrador retriever trained to sniff out the scent emitted by a human with the disease.