Growing use of home Covid-19 tests leaves health agencies in the dark about unreported cases

(By Kathleen McLaughlin for STAT)

When fans of the band Phish started falling ill with Covid-19 all over the country after a Halloween concert weekend in Las Vegas, public health officials were largely in the dark about what appears to have been a superspreader event. In a Facebook post from mid-November with hundreds of responses, concertgoers compared symptoms and positive test results, many of those from tests taken at home. But those data weren’t added to state public health tallies of Covid’s spread. Continue reading here…

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