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Tests are being re-sold on a secondary market as learners face months-long waits for an exam

Rapid antigen tests will soon become a standard precursor to social interaction.

U. of I.'s Shield Illinois now has 24 testing sites statewide. DePaul’s Loop campus partnership marks the nonprofit’s third testing site in Chicago.

The mask mandate goes into effect on Wednesday and will remain in place until Jan. 15.

Negotiators search for compromise and ways to slow climate change, as protestors clamor for bolder action.

Genetically profiling three million Africans could be key for better healthcare, argue scientists.

State lawmakers passed a new law that makes price gouging for tests and vaccines during the pandemic illegal.

As demand for COVID-19 testing has picked up again in Chicago and Illinois, here are 10 things to know about testing at home.

More than 90,000 people sign a petition calling on Boris Johnson to halt the alpaca's execution.

Sri Lanka’s risk premium for a default jumped, reflecting concern that the pandemic is damaging the nation’s ability to fill its foreign-exchange coffers ahead of at least $2.5 billion in dollar debt due in the next 12 months.

Sri Lanka’s risk premium for a default jumped, reflecting concern that the pandemic is damaging the nation’s ability to fill its foreign-exchange coffers ahead of at least $2.5 billion in dollar debt due in the next 12 months.

Travellers with Ryanair and EasyJet were told they could not fly because they had taken the wrong PCR test.

Thousands return to the dance floor in Liverpool at a trial event with no social distancing or masks.

Amazon has received authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a Covid-19 test that it hopes to use to bolster its employee screening program. Amazon plans to use the test among its workforce as part of its Covid-19 preparedness and response program, according to a separate FDA document. Business Insider reported last July that Sibay was tapped to steer Amazon's efforts to build an internal Covid-19 testing lab. The FDA authorization comes as Amazon continues to expand its testing program for warehouse and delivery employees. Last October, Amazon disclosed that nearly 20,000 front-line employees contracted Covid-19 between March 1 and Sept. 19.

The test, known as covidSHIELD, appeared on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s online list of approved molecular diagnostic tests on Monday. U. of I. has relied on the test to keep its three campuses open for in-person learning since the fall, garnering national attention for the innovation and running more than 1.5 million samples to date.

While many sites are free, If you opted to get a rapid test for fast results, you probably paid $100 or more. How to get reimbursed for rapid COVID testIf you haven’t been tested yet, but need a rapid COVID test, call your insurance company at the number on your insurance card. Ask if they will reimburse the cost of a rapid covid test. It’s important where ever you go that you make sure you tell them you only want a covid test and nothing else. AdCommunity Health Choice is not limiting the number of rapid covid tests that it will reimburse for.

So far, Chicago has administered at least 33,607 doses of vaccine, according to the city’s website. So far, the city’s administered at least 33,607 doses of vaccine, according to the city’s website. Consumers should also be aware that Medicare or Medicaid will not call seniors or residents to proactively offer the COVID-19 vaccine. Statewide, inventory dropped by over one-third in a year, down from 54,604 homes a year ago to 34,486 in November, according to Illinois Realtors. —Ariel CheungBreaking coronavirus news Stay up to date with the latest information on coronavirus with our breaking news alerts.

But nearly six months after its unveiling, the test remains largely confined to the school’s campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield. With an emergency use request submitted, other parties will be able to use the test while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reviews the application. It’s unclear how long that will take, but the emergency authorization is desirable because it provides liability protection among other regulatory benefits.

It took him four days to be able to get a test, for which he paid $150. He shared his positive result with his staff, encouraging them all to get tested, too. For some of them, however, it took two weeks to get tested and receive results, preventing them from working. The experience convinced Sanchez to pivot his business for the second time since March and to reopen the two Moe’s restaurants Dec. 2 as COVID-19 testing sites.

It took him four days to be able to get a test, for which he paid $150. He shared his positive result with his staff, encouraging them all to get tested, too. For some of them, however, it took two weeks to get tested and receive results, preventing them from working. The experience convinced Sanchez to pivot his business for the second time since March and to reopen the two Moe’s restaurants Dec. 2 as COVID-19 testing sites.

HOUSTON – Doctors and government leaders are urging us to get tested for COVID-19 even if we don’t have any symptoms. He answered our questions about which tests are best to detect the virus. A: Varon said rapid tests, even if taken with a nasal swab, have proven to be inaccurate about 20% of the time. Rapid Nasal Swab TestAverage 20% false-negative readingsUsually $150 & upResults come back in as little as 15 minutesSaliva and mouth swab testsAverage 30% chance of false-negative readings. A: It could be because you were given other tests in addition to the COVID test.

Roche received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a new test that measures coronavirus antibodies within the blood. The Swiss diagnostics and pharmaceutical giant said Wednesday that the test, called "Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S," specifically detects antibodies against the virus' spike protein within blood samples. It appeared to be positioning its tests as a way to gauge individuals' antibody response to coronavirus vaccines that could soon become widely available, noting that "many current candidate vaccines aim to induce an antibody response against the coronavirus spike protein. Tests that quantify antibodies to the spike protein could be used to measure the level of that response and track that measurement over time." "Antibody tests like these will play a critical role in measuring a person's vaccine-induced immune response," he added.

Despite the high-risk nature of the surgery, some transplant centers around the country have begun performing the operation. And at least one other Chicago hospital has considered doing the procedure, though the transplant surgeon warned of its difficulties. Meanwhile, calls from across the country continue to come for Northwestern, which has performed more of these surgeries at this point than any other hospital in the world, Bharat said.

She took the test on Tuesday after a staffer for Gov. J.B. Pritzker, with whom she attended another news conference last week, tested positive for thecoronavirus. Also on Tuesday, she canceled her public appearances.

Graduate student Temple Douglas was just a high school intern when she began work on an experimental test that could be a "game-changer" for people with Lyme disease. Mark Albert reports.

Could you imagine getting from New York to Washington, D.C., in only 30 minutes? The Hyperloop would transport passenger-filled pods through special tubes at 750 miles per hour. Lance Ulanoff, chief correspondent and editor at large of Mashable, was at the test Wednesday and has more on how Hyperloop performed.

A new gene-activity test accurately identifies many women with early stage cancer who can safely skip chemotherapy. WBZ-TV's Dr. Mallika Marshall reports.

Color Genomics has come up with a saliva kit that tests for two types of gene mutations linked to breast cancer and ovarian cancer. While traditional tests can cost $4,000, this kit only costs $249. But will it be effective? CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook reports.

Prosecutors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial spent Tuesday trying to convince a jury to choose the death penalty as the punishment for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; color Genomics has come up with a saliva kit that tests for two types of gene mutations linked to breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

New test may help detect Alzheimer's earlier More than 5 million people in the U.S. are living with Alzheimer's. Now British researchers say they have developed a blood test that could reveal early changes in the brain related to the disease - before a patient has symptoms. CBS News' Alphonso Van Marsh reports.