Gathering with friends or family this year? Here's how and when to use at-home rapid tests to screen for COVID-19 beforehand.
One thing to note when you’re shopping for tests: Rapid at-home tests are different from at-home collection tests, like those done throughAlso, plan ahead.
For that reason, he personally recommends doing a rapid test 72 hours before an event, then doing it again about an hour before your family gathering — “without going to other places, to avoid possible exposure,” he said. The key point in both experts’ guidance is not only to do more than one test but also to isolate after you take whatever your final test will be. If you’re getting together with friends on New Year’s Eve, for example, and you take a test, then run to the grocery to pick up a last-minute ingredient before they arrive, there’s a chance of a new exposure.Make sure to isolate after you take your final rapid test to avoid the risk of a new exposure.
But that’s not all they’re doing to play it safe. “We are also planning on having our event outside if the weather is good,” Scuderi said.If you’re totally asymptomatic, you’ve been masking up and being mindful of public spaces, and you get a positive on a rapid test that you’re surprised by, “you can always repeat it,” said Philip Landrigan, director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College. “That’s what we do in the hospital.
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