27August 2020
The Greater Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network(SCAN)provides totally free at-home testing for COVID-19 in King County, and it’s an easy process you can do yourself in the convenience and personal privacy of your own home:
EDITOR’S NOTE: I utilized this great complimentary service myself and conducted my own nasal swab test in July(luckily I evaluated unfavorable ). It was very efficient, professional and personal from start to finish, and included totally free at-home shipment and pickup, along with easy-to-follow guidelines.
Test results returned via email/web within 24 hr.
Regrettably, my sibling and her fiancé both evaluated favorable, and have actually been battling COVID-19 given that July 22, both suffering with different symptoms. I know firsthand from following this pandemic as a reporter from the start, as well as having a close relative fighting it that it is undoubtedly extremely real, and really dangerous, with the potential for long-lasting health issues. So use your flippin’ mask!
— Scott Schaefer, Founder/Publisher/Editor
Check out SCAN’s website at the link here to enlist and ask for a nasal swab kit. If possible, a package will be provided to your door in about 24 hr. Note that daily availability is limited.
Since introducing on March 23, SCAN has evaluated more than 25,000 samples from throughout the county, and recognized 390 cases of COVID-19. The outcomes of these tests help to comprehend the coronavirus break out better and, in addition to other data sources, aid inform public health decisions. Individual information will remain protected and will never be made publicly available.
SCAN just recently launched an information control panel at https://scanpublichealth.org/dashboard. The dashboard offers a publicly accessible, updated picture of the number of SCAN sets have been delivered, where they have actually been delivered, the rate of COVID-19 positives among SCAN individuals, and market info about SCAN individuals.
Additionally, in the recent technical report and blog post released Aug. 4, SCAN launched several findings: Individuals who report signs of COVID-like health problem are most likely to evaluate favorable. Acute loss of sense of smell or taste (anosmia) is the strongest single predictor of COVID-19 infection in our data, with 8.4% of individuals reporting the sign testing positive for COVID-19. Other signs related to screening positive consisted of eye pain (3.7% reporting the sign evaluated positive), feeling feverish (3.3%), chills or shivering (3.2%), sweats (2.9%), and muscle aches/myalgia (2.3%).
How It Functions More details: Source: b-townblog. com
Whether you’re healthy or ill, you or a relative might be able to support SCAN’s research study by gathering your own nasal swab in the house and returning it to us. We will not have the ability to take samples from everybody, and among our main objectives is to utilize our screening resources to understand how kids, high-risk and underrepresented communities are being affected by the infection. Those who take part will help our researchers and local public health leaders find out more about coronavirus and how to slow its spread.