Unlike at clinics and doctors’ offices, which always log Covid test results with public health officials, if you take a test at home, it’s up to you whether you disclose the results to your local health department.
As soon as residents submit their positive results, “we want them to have as much information as possible,” so they get automated emails that include details about how to isolate safely while they are sick, as well as documentation for their employers or schools.
“We were expecting a high volume because of the holiday, and we’re actually hopeful, because that many people have found out they were positive and hopefully didn’t go to any family gatherings,” he said. Dr. Robert Murphy, the executive director of the Institute for Global Health at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said calculating how many home tests go unreported is complicated.
“I’m sure some slip through the cracks, but it’s not going to be an overwhelming number,” he said of the home tests.
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