COVID-19 testing
The pop up COVID-19 testing site on Mt. Hope Avenue in Rochester still remains closed. The Center for COVID Control stopped operating and had planned to reopen again by January 22nd. The pop up testing site is now under investigation by the Better Business Bureau after customers complained about not receiving their COVID-19 test results. […]
President Joe Biden announced the plan to make at home rapid covid test free And extending the mass requirement when using public transportation. This announcement comes As a plan for a Winter coronavirus strategy and making it more possible to prevent people from spreading COVID-19. Americans with private insurance would be able to submit for reimbursement for […]
Yesterday, the Rochester City School District employees were informed that they must be vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID testing, making the RSCD the first local district to require this policy. Employees who don’t submit to testing will not be allowed to return to work and will be placed on unpaid leave and testing must be […]
Scammers are at it again this time in Indonesia were several employees at a pharmaceutical company has been arrested for allegedly selling reused covid nasal swab kits. At least nine thousand passengers at an airport in Medan haven’t tested with reused nasal swabs according to reports. Now the company that’s known as Kimia Farma is […]
Students at St. John Fisher are returning to campus to start the spring semester classes, but to make sure everyone is safe, they must get a COVID-19 test. Students have to get tested before returning to campus and then once a week via an appointment based drive through center that gives results in around 15 […]
Since Monroe County has been updated to a yellow zone, a few school districts have begun testing their students and staff for COVID-19 starting Monday. The regulations state that they have to test 20% of people in each building. Every one of the 603 tests that Webster schools administered on Monday came back negative. In […]
SalivaDirect is the fifth saliva test that’s been approved by the FDA for the disease. Yale School of Public Health used players and staff at the National Basketball Association to trial the test. They partnered up in June, and tested asymptomatic players, coaches and staff from various teams. The goal was to come up with […]
On Thursday, Texas reported its highest spike in coronavirus cases since it began re opening. The governor has since paused the scheduled phase in response to the more than 6000 new cases that were reported in one day. The combined numbers in the 30 states that have begun reopening procedures have set a record for […]
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