Coronavirus COVID-19
'Trying to catch every case': Are cheap home COVID-19 tests the delta antidote?
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USA TODAY
In the isolated villages dotting the tundra of southwestern Alaska, a plane ride away from the nearest public health lab in Anchorage, it took an average of eight days to complete a coronavirus test last October.
Public health workers stepped in, and beginning in mid-November they blanketed the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region with 15-minute coronavirus tests. The tests were completed, outbreaks slowed and cases dropped 65%.