Now that mankind has been exposed to coronavirus for almost a year, the importance of COVID testing is becoming increasingly important as a way to fight the disease. Whether you have no symptoms, or you show the known symptoms of infection, or you may have been exposed to the virus unaware of it, the testing helps curb the spread of coronavirus. A positive test early in the course of the illness enables individuals to isolate themselves and reduce the chances of infecting others and allows them to seek treatment earlier thereby reducing disease severity and the risk of long-term disability, or death. A positive test makes it clear that you have to self-isolate, and that others with whom you have been in contact since the time of your exposure should also get tested.
Numerous companies active in the medical services sector offer COVID testing solutions, yet OmeCare, a San-Diego company, whose core expertise is DNA testing, and which is already well known for OmeHealth, OmePsychiatricMeds, and OmeSkin, its easy-to-use life-changing products, is offering its own no less user-friendly solution to this problem.
What makes OmeCare so unique in the way of medical tests and sets it apart from its competitors, is the ownership of a state-of-the-art laboratory that possesses all requisite accreditations, including one from the College of Pathologists and CLIA (Clinical Laboratories Improvements Amendment), authorizing the lab to perform the widest range of tests. Though the lab was initially designed and is mainly used to perform genetic tests, it is amply equipped and qualified to perform fast and reliable COVID tests, too. This is the classical case of a dual application—DNA testing during ‘peaceful times’, COVID testing at ‘wartime’
In order to minimize potentially hazardous human contacts that are inevitable during hospital visits, OmeCare’s COVID test is performed with self-administered test packages. Tests kits come in two sizes: a 10-pack for $750 that would ideally suit small business owners, and a 50-pack for $3000 – a solution for larger companies, schools, colleges. Each PCR COVID-19 Self-Administered Test Box packs 10 or 50 individualized self-collection tubes, swabs, and specimen bags along with instructions. After the tested material is self-collected and safely sealed, it is sent to the lab in a return box. No later than 24-48 hours after the lab receives the sample, the duly signed test report lands in the personalized portal where the client can securely access it.
In the spring, the coronavirus was preying heavily on the elderly, whereas now it increasingly affects American children of school age, a trend that may be associated with the school reopenings and the resumption of related sports activities. In April, children of all ages made up 2% of all US cases, by the fall the percentage climbed to 10%, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics report, and has been rising since last September. This trend makes a strong case for turning to OmeCare COVID test packages to protect employees, students, and faculty, all without the need to keep a staff health care provider.
The ease of use, the absence of a long-term obligation, and the short delivery time make OmeCare’s COVID self-administered COVID test a choice solution for school and college administrations eager to make their campuses safer.
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