Community health workers are pushing to deliver at-home tests and advance education to some people most vulnerable to Covid-19.
New high-tech Covid-19 tests promise better and earlier detection of the virus—similar to a PCR test. WSJ’s Joanna Stern tried out the Detect Covid-19 Test and Cue Health Monitoring System to see how they compare with rapid antigen tests.
Photo illustration: Ryan Trefes/ WSJAs the Biden administration distributes hundreds of millions of Covid-19 tests, some public-health workers are moving to deliver the kits a final mile to some of the peopleAlejandra Flores-Miller, a community health worker at Johns Hopkins University, is referring people around Baltimore to a phone hotline and chatting with day laborers and others in the community about at-home Covid-19 tests.
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