When rapid antigen test shortage is tipped to end

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YOUR SAY: Should Australia start Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) drive thru clinics? In a bid to curb the shortage, drive-thru testing clinics could provide both PCR and RATs to patrons. 9News MORE:

"Before you waste your time putting your kids in the car and driving around, check the website before you go and pop into your pharmacy."Rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 are used at home and can provide results in as little as 15 minutes.Rapid antigen tests can provide results in as little as 15 minutes.

If you take a rapid antigen test and it comes back positive, you won't need to get a follow-up PCR test to confirm the result.If either your rapid antigen or PCR test returns a positive result you must isolate at home.Early research out of the US suggests a home nasal swab may not always detect the Omicron strain within the first few days of infection.The PCR test detected the virus on average three days before the rapid tests returned a positive result.

 

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No. It’s time to move past covid

Just Thinking: Are you running this Poll on behalf of Private Pathology Labs? Govt is doing all right things now and in a logical manner. RAT can easily be done at home.

How do you say institutionalised without saying institutionalised?

They are doing this already.

Australia should not test healthy people .

No waste of time .

There is no way Scovid the coal fondler is going to make RAT free. Not whilst his big business mates can profit from the death and suffering caused by his lack of leadership.

Start reporting real news! Stop with your government propaganda! Trying to keep the narrative going .....tsk tsk tsk

that way you wont have to make up bs undetectable sons and daughters of omicron and can go back to giving fake positive cases...

At least invent your own rat tool

Honestly don't GAF

Sounds like a RAT trap

How about if your sick you stay home like people have been doing for centuries. If your really sick see your GP

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Nooooooo … just provide them for home testing … think … time .. car pollution … manpower … for something that can be done at home!

What would the point be in doing that the only beauty of RATs is the ability to do them at home and get on with life.

maybe we just treat it like cold or flu n move on ffs!! ppl think no one is dying of anything else but covid fmd..

Absolutely.. we have to be top of this virus..

Just say NO to Covid Cult RATs! auspol

It’s all Scott Morrison‘s fault. Just another failure in a long list of failures.

Stop the testing.lift the mandates. It's time to forget about the virus.

Or we could just stop testing & miraculously this goes away 🤔

We should go back to normal - no tests! No check ins, open boarders internal and external. . Use common sense - treat it like a cold. Keep your kids home from school when not well. Stay home from work when your not well. Stay away from the public if your not well.

A nation of hypochondriacs. Australia is gone…..

RAT’s are misleading, they pick it up early enough.

I thought they had.

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