How to store Covid at-home tests properly

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Here's how to store your at-home Covid tests properly.

starting to arrive in the mail, it’s crucial to know how to take care of those tests properly.

“When you cook an egg, it denatures the proteins,” she explained. “And in this test are proteins that are going to be very sensitive to becoming too hot.” So if you ordered the tests online, you should try to bring them inside your home as quickly as possible rather than letting the delivery sit out in the sun. And if you picked them up at the store, you shouldn’t leave them in the trunk of your freezing car overnight, for example.Knowing that temperature may reduce their accuracy, be careful where you decide to store COVID-19 rapid tests in your home.

And while even the packages of reagents “should be pretty durable from physical stressors,” Mathers said, you don’t want to see any leaking. If you do, you shouldn’t use the test. “These are medical tests,” Mathers said. “They’re developed for use in medical settings by trained personnel. So you really, really need to follow the instructions to the exact letter.”

Garner also shared a warning about one of the most common rapid test mistakes he’s seen: “The most common mistake that I’ve seen is not reading the results within the appropriate time frame,” he said.

 

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What about them being delivered in below freezing temperatures? If the liquids freeze the tests are ruined? At what temperature do those liquids freeze? Is it possible to get delivery notifications from USPS for the tests? It is starting to look like a lot of ruined tests.

The ones made in China?

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Dry, room temperature, got it. You could've just put that in the tweet.

Store it in the trash.

In the trash! Because they are scamming you to get you to buy them. God CalledUp

The garbage can works.

I have a suggestion.

lol how about in the trash does that work?

Store them in the trash bin!!

Are the provided directions written in Chinese?

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Store them ? I will be selling mine for 75.00 a piece to the freaks that test daily .

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