Health care experts say at-home antigen COVID-19 testing kits offer more flexibility in testing, equity and reducing costs, but those test kit results will no longer be represented in Alaska’s database regarding active COVID-19 case numbers.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Health care experts say at-home antigen COVID-19 testing kits are creating testing more available to the public.
According to Cutchins, all labs and tests that fall under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment, or CLIA — which ensures clinical labs are regulated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — were recorded in the COVID-19 database. Cutchins said due to this transition, the state will lose data, such as state positivity rates and case numbers in communities. Instead, he said it is presenting a new chapter in data collection as the state moves away from looking at total case numbers.
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