What makes at-home COVID-19 tests so convenient also makes them useless for health officials trying to keep tabs on the virus
COVID-19 rapid tests are easy to take—and then toss. So most people never report their results, which leaves health officials with an incomplete picture of how much virus is circulating and where. The convenience of the at-home tests have made PCR tests, which require a doctor’s prescription and a lab to run them, much less popular than they were earlier in the pandemic. PCR test results currently make up the bulk of documented case numbers, so the total is always an undercount.
But more complete data-gathering requires a national effort, which the federal government launched in Nov. 2022. The websiteallows people to anonymously record whether their self-test for COVID-19 was positive or negative. “There is a big gap between the amount of testing going on and the amount of data being reported,” says Andrew Weitz at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering , a branch of the National Institutes of Health that developed and runs the site.
Ultimately, most Americans will probably need incentives to self-report their results, Weitz acknowledges. “Why is someone going to report their result and take the time to do that if they are not getting anything back in return?” he says. He and his team are working on some additional features to MakeMyTestCount.org that might encourage more reporting, including a testing diary that would allow people who report multiple test results to see all of their tests in one place.
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