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Yes, combined with vaccination, home test kits for Covid-19 can add a layer of safety and reassurance by providing on-the-spot results during this second year of pandemic holidays.
Home kits are not as accurate as the PCR tests done in hospitals and at testing sites, Volk says. But they have the advantage of giving results within minutes instead of days. Adults and teens can test themselves. An adult can test a child as young as 2. How-to videos on product websites can be helpful.
Home tests will miss some infections and in rare cases mistakenly indicate an infection. One popular test misses around 15 out of 100 infections — these are called “false negatives” — and gives a false positive result in about 1 in 100 people who aren’t infected.
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