coronavirus testing

Big-box wholesaler Costco startled some consumers Friday with an email that included a coronavirus test as a featured item.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker spoke on vaccination distribution and COVID-19 testing plans during his daily coronavirus briefing Wednesday.

President Donald Trump briefly left Walter Reed Medical Center in his motorcade to salute at supporters outside the hospital. Trump was admitted to Walter Reed for COVID treatment on Friday. Doctors have said the president is doing “well” and could return to the White House as early as Monday.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden both tested negative for the coronavirus Friday and by afternoon Joe Biden was campaigning in Michigan. “I’m happy to report that Jill and I have tested negative for COVID. Thank you to everyone for your messages of concern,” former Vice President Biden tweeted. “I hope this serves as...

At a press conference on Monday, White House coronavirus task force testing czar Adm. Brett Giroir demonstrated how to operate the new coronavirus rapid tests, which will be allocated to states this week based on their relative population size.

It’s not just Democrats who want voters thinking about the pandemic on Election Day.

United Airlines will offer some Hawaii-bound customers rapid-response coronavirus tests at the airport, an effort to get around quarantine requirements and eventually, open up more destinations to travelers during the pandemic.

A new study out of the University of Bern found that the number asymptomatic coronavirus cases is much lower than some previously estimated and that the majority of cases will include symptoms at some point in the infection.

Illinois has reached three major milestones in coronavirus testing, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Monday.

The CDC updated their coronavirus guidelines on Friday to include testing recommendations for anyone who has been in contact with others confirmed to have the coronavirus, even if they are asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic.

U.S. health officials are dropping a controversial piece of coronavirus guidance and telling all those who have been in close contact with infected people to get tested

The state of Illinois surpassed a major milestone on Sunday – more than 4 million coronavirus tests performed since the pandemic began.

A new study out of Seoul National University suggests that children can shed the coronavirus for up to three weeks, even if they are asymptomatic.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced that, for the first time, Illinois health officials are beginning to utilize a new saliva-based coronavirus test developed at the University of Illinois’ Urbana-Champaign campus, and as a result the state was able to conduct more than 50,000 new COVID-19 tests over the last 24 hours.

Evelyn Gosnell and some friends are planning a camping trip next month for a birthday celebration. Gosnell, a Bay Area-based behavioral scientist in her 30s, said the group has agreed to quarantine for two weeks ahead of the trip to reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19.

Texas leaders who grappled with coronavirus testing shortages for much of the pandemic are now facing the opposite problem: not enough takers

A recent study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association concluded colleges would need to test students for coronavirus every two days in order to reopen safely. NBC 5’s Katie Kim reports.

Besides the positive steps toward a vaccine, medical experts are also making encouraging progress on testing and treatment of COVID-19. So even though coronavirus outbreaks continue to litter the U.S. map, NBCLX’s Noah Pransky presents three good signs about the pandemic that we can all hang some hope on.

With more and more Americans getting swabbed for the coronavirus, patients are having to wait up to two weeks — and in some cases even longer — to receive their test results. And Illinois is no exception. At a news conference Monday in Quincy, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker explained that national laboratories are dealing with an overwhelming number of tests…

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered a coronavirus update from a downstate Illinois county recently named one of four to reach a “warning level” during the pandemic.