A medical provider bags a completed test at the STRIDE Community Health Center's COVID-19 drive-thru testing site at the Aurora Health and Wellness Plaza March 26, 2020.
A medical provider bags a completed test at the STRIDE Community Health Center's COVID-19 drive-thru testing site at the Aurora Health and Wellness Plaza March 26, 2020.Quest Diagnostics announced Tuesday that individuals can now skip a doctor's visit and order a coronavirus antibody test online in a push to broaden Covid-19 screening.
Quest screens patients online to determine whether or not an antibody test is appropriate and then sends them to have their blood drawn at one of Quest's 2,200 laboratories, Quest said in a statement. The results are available within one to two days after a blood sample is taken, the company said.
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