At-home testing for COVID-19 more than tripled during the omicron wave in the United States, but there were disparities in the tests’ use, according to a study published Friday in MMWR.
Data showed at-home testing was less common among people who were older, Black, had a lower income and a high school education level or less, Benjamin Rader, MPH, a graduate research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Boston University School of Public Health, and colleagues reported.
They collected data from more than 418,000 adult respondents to an online survey from Aug. 23 through March