{"id":158936,"date":"2023-02-25T05:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T11:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/fda-authorizes-first-at-home-test-that-can-detect-both-flu-and-covid-19"},"modified":"2023-02-25T05:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T11:22:17","slug":"fda-authorizes-first-at-home-test-that-can-detect-both-flu-and-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/fda-authorizes-first-at-home-test-that-can-detect-both-flu-and-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"FDA authorizes first at-home test that can detect both flu and Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-authorizes-first-at-home-test-that-can-detect-both-flu-and-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve got a fever and a cough, you don\u2019t necessarily have to go to the doctor anymore to find out if it\u2019s the flu or Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/fda-authorizes-first-over-counter-home-test-detect-both-influenza-and-covid-19-viruses\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">authorized<\/a> what it says is the first at-home test that can tell users if they have the flu and\/or Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The test, made by California biotech company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucirahealth.com\/lucira-health-announces-national-launch-of-lucira-connect-test-to-treat-service-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">Lucira Health<\/a>, uses a single self-collected nasal swab and can provide results in about half an hour. The test can be bought without a prescription. It\u2019s authorized for anyone 14 and older for self-collection, or an adult can give it to a child 2 or older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve got a fever and a cough, you don\u2019t necessarily have to go to the doctor anymore to find out if it\u2019s the flu or Covid-19. On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration authorized what it says is the first at-home test that can tell users if they have the flu and\/or Covid-19. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}