Yolo County Hands Out More Home COVID Tests To Those Who Tested Positive

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WOODLAND (CBS13) — Yolo County is handing retired escaped at-home COVID-19 tests, but determination is 1 catch: you request to trial affirmative archetypal to get one.

Manuel Mariano couldn’t judge the enactment of radical successful their cars that curled astir the artifact successful Woodland. He tested affirmative for COVID-19.

“I got tested due to the fact that my daughter’s person tested positive,” Mariano said. “That’s the crushed wherefore and they are each negative.”

He says helium has not had a fever

“I person a sore pharynx and past I consciousness a small weak,” helium said.

The highly contagious omicron variant has resulted successful a grounds fig of cases successful Yolo County. That’s wherefore the region decided to manus retired 5,000 escaped antigen location trial kits distributed by the state.

“You person to person tested positively successful the past 7 days and amusement impervious of that connected a compartment telephone oregon tablet and the day of test,” region spokesperson John Fout said.

So wherefore are these tests for radical who’ve already tested positive? The thought is to shorten isolation periods to little than 10 days if they person nary symptoms oregon symptoms that are improving.

“I’ve got 4 household members, my lad and his full household are down, truthful we are trying to get the in-home we we incapable to find them anywhere,” genitor Michelle Bowman said. “He can’t instrumentality to enactment until we cognize for sure.”

Experts accidental antigen tests are preferred for shortening the isolation play due to the fact that PCR tests tin amusement a affirmative effect for months adjacent if you are not contagious. Many were thankful for the escaped tests.

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If you weren’t capable to get 1 of those trial kits Monday you tin get them astatine Healthy Davis Together oregon Health Yolo Together.