City Of Springfield: Health Department Creates Online Tool To Report At-Home COVID-19 Test Results

Springfield MO

11 March, 2022

11:48 AM

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Press release from the City of Springfield: March 10, 2022 Loading Create an Account - Increase your productivity, customize your experience, and engage in information you care about.    The Springfield-Greene County Health Department has created an online tool to report positive COVID-19 cases from at-home antigen tests. This tool will provide an additional snapshot of community levels of the disease and help the Health Department watch disease trends over time.  Prior to the creation of this tool, home tests, which were widely used during the Omicron surge, could only be reported over the phone. This online tool will streamline the process and assure home tests will continue to be valuable, quick and user-friendly tools now and in future surges of COVID-19 cases.  How to report a positive case from a home test If you receive a positive result from a home test, please visit COVIDTesting417.com to record your test information. Data collected includes: After reporting, you will be prompted to fill out an optional survey, report additional information about close contacts and the Health Department will provide further guidance about what to do while you are sick.  If you need COVID-19 at-home tests, free test kits are available through the United States Postal Service at covidtests.gov. Each kit contains four antigen tests. Limit of two kits per household.  This press release was produced by the City of Springfield. The views expressed here are the author's own.