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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave emergency authorization to an at-home coronavirus test kit produced by Austin-based company Everlywell.
The kit provides materials to take a nasal swab that can then be sent to one of two laboratories for testing, the agency said in a release posted to the website Saturday, with kits available to those who have been screened via an online questionnaire:
Once patients self-swab to collect their nasal sample, they will ship the sample overnight to a specific CLIA-certified lab that is running one of the in vitro diagnostic molecular tests authorized under a separate EUA for use with the Everlywell at-home sample collection kit.
Everlywell CEO Julia Cheek said on Twitter that the kits would be available later this month.
1/ Our team is small, but we do big things. So proud to announce that today @Everly_well became the first digital h… https://t.co/Za1xhoRu8P— Julia Cheek (@Julia Cheek)1589654854.0
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