Self-Service Diagnosis of COVID-19—Ready for Prime Time?

JAMA Health Forum, March 16 2020

by Shantanu Nundy and Kavita K Patel

In the wake of this epidemic, other countries have expanded testing through “testing drive-thrus,” which have also been employed in limited settings in the United States. Self-testing for COVID-19 has been proposed in the United States in a limited setting. We propose expanding access more widely with a self-service diagnostic pathway for COVID-19 using at-home nasopharyngeal swab collection.