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Report Covid-19 Home Test Results Through New NIH Website

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Reporting a positive or negative test result just became easier through a new website from NIH, MakeMyTestCount.org. Developed through NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx®) Tech program, the new website allows users to anonymously report the results of any brand of at-home Covid-19 test.

Covid-19 testing remains an essential tool as the United States heads into the holiday season and people navigate respiratory viruses. While taking a rapid Covid-19 test has become commonplace, test results are not often reported. Covid-19 test results provide valuable data that public health departments can use to assess the needs and modify the responses in the local community, the state or the nation.

Lab tests have a well-established technology system for sharing test results. RADx Tech has been working on a system to standardize test reporting for at-home tests in a secure manner. The MakeMyTestCount.org website is built on this system for logging test results.

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