covid-19 testing

The Biden administration announced its strategy to contain COVID-19 cases through the holidays, including making free testing kits available to all U.S. households.

The Biden administration is again making some free COVID-19 tests available to all American households

As schools deal with absences due to illnesses including COVID-19 and the flu, some parents want Boston Public Schools to bring back mask mandates in the classroom. “Today, this morning, my daughter tested positive for COVID,” Sulieka Soto said. Soto is worried about her daughter. When students return to class in January, she and other parents want facial coverings and…

With schools being hit hard by respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19 and the flu, Boston parents want safety measures like facial coverings and testing to return when kids go back to school in January.

New U.S. recommendations call for three home tests for people exposed to COVID-19 to improve accuracy.

See the latest COVID-19 testing guidelines for major cruise lines sailing out of the United States including Carnival, Norwegian, Disney and more.

Here are the latest COVID-19 rules for every major cruise line sailing out of the United States, including masks, vaccination, testing requirements.

Starting this fall, the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education says it will suspend its COVID testing program.

Massachusetts will end its state-run school COVID-19 testing program after this school year, state officials announced, with other educational testing and isolation policy changes being put into effect this week. Beginning in the fall of 2022, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education says the state will stop supplying self-tests “or other COVID testing services” to schools. “The end of…

Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, warned Wednesday the U.S. will face a challenging fall and winter without additional congressional funding for testing and treatment.

The CDC previously recommended testing before travel for people who were not vaccinated or up to date with their booster shots

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending travelers get tested for COVID-19 as close to the time of departure as possible.

The seven state-managed COVID-19 testing sites will close on March 15 as cases of the virus have dropped, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday. The sites are in Belmont, Claremont, Keene, Lincoln, Manchester, Nashua, and Newington. They will close at 3 p.m. that day. COVID-19 testing is still available at 90 locations in the state,…

The three-time Olympic medalist and two-time women’s bobsled world champion raised money for the National Down Syndrome Society by auctioning off her unused, one-of-a-kind opening ceremony parka.

The three-time Olympic medalist and two-time women’s bobsled world champion is raising money for the National Down Syndrome Society by auctioning off her unused, one-of-a-kind opening ceremony parka.

The coronavirus pandemic has hit day care centers especially hard. “Nobody is happy with the current state of child care, it is incredibly hard to operate a center right now,” said Sarah Muncey, co-founder of Neighborhood Villages. The organization is administering Massachusetts’ new COVID-19 testing program. Starting Monday, day care centers across the commonwealth are eligible to receive free antigen…

A new COVID-19 testing program in Massachusetts seeks to keep children healthy in day care centers.

Even in the third calendar year of the pandemic, it seems we keep failing the test of getting COVID tests in the hands of Americans. From the beginning, we bungled COVID testing. The CDC wanted everyone to use only their test, but the test didn’t end up working. We had to play catch up as new variants and society’s...

Even in the third calendar year of the pandemic, it seems we keep failing the test of getting COVID tests in the hands of Americans — but why? NBCLX storyteller Eric Rodriguez looks at how COVID testing infrastructure has changed since March 2020, why omicron created so many challenges and how the testing industry is evolving to meet demand.

As you continue to get more familiar with these tests, here’s what you need to know about storing and taking the tests to get the most accurate results possible.