Current Events > Any of you here have never taken an at home Covid test?

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prob. most americans, have

I never have, i go to professionals for something that serious

Not once
Had Covid in January, all testing I did was at a licensed medical facility.

I've taken at home tests 3 times so far

i've not taken a test at all. only had one time where i had any symptoms (and even then, only the secondary ones. no cough). so i just stayed home for long enough to let it clear.

the nasal swab wasn't as bad as i thought when i had to administer it myself.

I've taken two at-home tests and two professional PCR tests. Never tested positive even though I was sick as shit both times.

I haven't. But I've admittedly been in a pretty comfortable place, so I've had the luxury of just saying "I don't need to test if I'm sick, I'll just stay home and play it safe." Not everyone can do that, so it's good that the at-home tests have been so generally available (for the most part, obviously there have been shortages of EVERYTHING at one point or another during this pandemic).

Yeah Ive taken 3 total, only 1 came back positive

3 at home tests, dozens of PCRs, hundreds of rapid tests

I've never needed to, because, up until last month, my job was providing weekly covid tests in the office.

I did have to test my son once because he was coughing a bit, so the school sent a test kit home with him. He was negative though.

Yeah. Theyre expensive now though. Capitalism baby.

I've got them just in case, but have never used them.

I don't go out in public much, and haven't even gotten sick this whole time outside of a slightly sore throats for less than an hour, so I never needed to. I've also never been in contact with anyone who got it.