Do Covid tests work for latest variants? Yes, with some big caveats

Bloomberg quotes Thomas Russo in an article about using COVID tests to detect current variants. If you’re sick and your first home test is negative, you have a few options besides waiting and repeating the test, explained Russo. You can go to urgent care and request a PCR test. Or, if you are older or in a high-risk group due to a pre-existing condition, just call your doctor, who might be willing to prescribe Pfizer’s Paxlovid pills without a confirmatory test, he said.