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Rapid COVID-19 tests could offer a false sense of security after the FDA acknowledged some might be less sensitive in detecting the omicron variant. News4’s Doreen Gentzler has a closer look at the research and reliability of these sought-after tests.

D.C. opened up four new COVID-19 centers to make it easier for people to get tested and vaccinated. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

The White House says the federal website where Americans can request free COVID-19 tests will begin accepting orders on Wednesday

The reason: The variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of people to infect, just a month and a half after it was first detected.

Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for those on their plans.

Walmart and Kroger raised the price of Abbott’s at-home COVID-19 test kit after an agreement with the White House to sell the tests at a reduced price expired.

Tens of thousands of D.C. public school students will have to get tested for COVID-19 before returning to school.

DC Public Schools students and staff members must show negative COVID-19 test results before returning to schools next week after winter break, officials said Wednesday.

President Joe Biden says the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free of charge to people to use at home

President Joe Biden promised to distribute hundreds of millions of free COVID-19 tests and to open more testing sites, but the stepped-up efforts will not come in time for the holidays

Public health officials worry about a coming strain on COVID testing infrastructure, which could create lines at testing sites and longer wait times for results.

Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder looks at the problem of coronavirus and children and what Fairfax County Schools is doing about it.