MISSOULA — Take-home Covid exams have been in the marketplace for fairly a while now, however Missoula Metropolis-County Well being Division is notifying individuals of a recall for one check.
“So it’s only a utterly not correct testing package,” stated Cindy Farr, the county’s COVID-19 incident response commander.
The Fast Antigen Ellume COVID-19 House Check has been recalled by the FDA as a result of a producing error.
The exams have given customers larger than regular false optimistic outcomes.
Farr says PCR exams are our greatest wager on getting an correct check consequence.
“The issue is that a variety of these over-the-counter exams that you would be able to purchase for dwelling testing kits that manufactured fairly shortly and now a few of them are beginning to see flaws the place they’re both getting false negatives or they’re getting false positives,” stated Farr.
One of many appeals to dwelling exams is how shortly you may get outcomes. Nevertheless, on the well being division’s Flynn Lane location, they use a neighborhood lab to get course of check outcomes, with a turn-around time of 24 hours.
“Whereas we noticed some delays a few months in the past, now that we’re utilizing a neighborhood lap to course of outcomes we’re getting these 24-hour turnaround,” Farr advised MTN Information. “So undoubtedly, quick and straightforward strategy to get examined.”
The well being division is making a change to notifying individuals of their check outcomes beginning on Monday, Oct. 25.
They are going to be making a change to a extra automated course of. So as an alternative of getting a name, the contact tracers can be sending out textual content messages with a hyperlink offered to fill out the knowledge they might usually ask over the telephone.
Farr desires everybody to know that in the event that they obtain a textual content message with a hyperlink from the well being division, it’s not a rip-off.
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