My COVID-19 at-home test kits have expired. What do I do?

One of my patients asked me this very question today! As it turns out, many COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits' expiration dates have been extended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this summer.

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Missing Microbes

FLASHBACK SERIES: Blog posts written during my residency training at Central Washington Family Medicine

by Kim Ha Wadsworth, DO | PGY-1
Ambulatory pediatrics rotation with Dr. Stephen Pearson, MD

My reflection on reading:

Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
by Martin J. Blaser

A Timeline of Medical Education

FLASHBACK SERIES: Blog posts written during my medical school days at Pacific Northwest University - College of Osteopathic Medicine

by Elia R. Cole, OMS III and Kim Ha Wadsworth, OMS III

Nothing about Me without Me

FLASHBACK SERIES: Blog posts written during my medical school days at Pacific Northwest University - College of Osteopathic Medicine

by Kim Ha Wadsworth, OMS III

Scenario:

An attending physician is doing morning rounds with his health care team comprising of nurses, residents, and students. The group of eight stops in the hallway outside a patient's room to discuss the case. The patient is sleeping, but her family members overhear parts of the team's conversation from inside their room, something about "IV" and "herpes positive." Her family members do not understand what is going on and wonder if the team is saying that she is an IV drug user and that she has a sexually transmitted infection. In reality, the nurse is simply reporting a problem with the IV line during the night which was promptly fixed, and the resident is reading the lab test results that indicate positive for Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (typically causing "cold sores") but negative for HSV2 (common cause of genital herpes).