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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