Ash 🐺 🌎 🌊Nov 24, 2022
Dr. Lucky Tran 

Looks like the NIH has set up a new website so that people in the US can finally report home test results: https://makemytestcount.org/

Hopefully these results will be made public soon, and are factored into policymaking, as current data may be undercounting by as much as 20x.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

MakeMyTestCount: Report COVID-19 home test results safely and privately.

Report COVID-19 home test results safely and privately.

Nov 24, 2022 at 2:24amWeb
Show threadDr. KimNov 24, 2022
@luckytran California has had that for a minute. Just wasn’t super well publicized. We hand these out at Umoja Health Sotes along with free rapid kits.
Show threadMargaret Hitchcock, PhDNov 24, 2022
@luckytran @Kfrhoads I assumed most counties in CA had their self- reporting portals up for a long time. Yolo Co now has a mobile testing van moving throughout the county throughout the week and free Covid tests in a vending machine at the public library to pick up the slack now that HealthyDavisTogether has stopped.
Show threadauthor_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5Nov 26, 2022

@Kfrhoads @luckytran Wait what? CA had one too?

I've never heard of it even with following CDPH's Twitter / Facebook.

Show threadGrant SimpsonNov 24, 2022
@luckytran Its about time! Very happy to see this.
Show threadcostrikeNov 24, 2022
@luckytran I wonder if it'll make much of a difference at this point. I certainly hope it does.
Show threadSuperSluetherNov 24, 2022
@luckytran FINALLY!
Show threadKeith Ammann @ GameStormNov 24, 2022
@luckytran It's nice that it exists, but I don't expect that it'll get used much. Not using it is still the easiest thing. Especially if you take a home test and it comes up negative.
Show threadBryce Allen BagleyNov 24, 2022
@luckytran Do you know if they're taking any clear measures to avoid people with anti-science views from poisoning the data well, so to speak? Because at first blush I wouldn't trust this data for a second, despite how badly it's needed.
Show threadMitchell AboulafiaNov 24, 2022

@luckytran

I’d like to be hopeful about this, but addressing Covid has been so undermined that I’m afraid it won’t be used much.

Show threadJennifer BulmanNov 24, 2022
@luckytran Canada needs to do this!
Show threadPhil LandmeierNov 24, 2022
@luckytran I've been participating in Outbreaks Near Me, formerly Flu Near Me, for years. But while they support the reporting of symptoms, I'm shocked they have no mechanism for reporting test results.
Show threadBanditqueenNov 24, 2022
@luckytran I hope you are not advocating for individual results to be made public. Medical information is private and nobody has any right to it. I assume you mean the data is made public, not private results.
Show threadBrian BudenholzerNov 24, 2022
@luckytran Please everyone, report all your Covid home test results. So, so important.
Show threadCharlestonjoanNov 27, 2022
@luckytran Finally. This is the first I've heard of it.