Kevin King

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The Podcast by KevinMD · Understanding the unseen role of back-to-school diagnostics · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

There are types of antigen and molecular products that are available over the counter.

Some of the molecular products, though, are more in a scenario in which you would have to do a collection at home and then send the sample in.

But both antigen and molecular products are available at most urgent cares or primary care physicians, especially small physician's office laboratories.

Absolutely.

Influenza and COVID tests are available.

Even combo tests are available.

So one test...

tests for both.

I'm not aware whether there are RSV over-the-counter tests available.

So that's probably something that you need to go to your doctor for.

Yeah, I think when you start to see higher levels of absenteeism or that if your community is monitoring wastewater for the detection of any of these viruses, those start to go up.

Those are good indicators of what's coming or that something is building.

And so that can help inform

a clinician, if you're aware of that knowledge, that can help inform the clinician what kinds of tests would make sense to do in coordination with the symptoms that you're observing.

Yeah, and so I would clarify that we're also in a time now because of the shutdown that not all of that data is available and being released from the CDC.

And that's national data and may look at your state, but may not inform you about what's going on in your community.

So continuing to perform diagnostic tests, and if your healthcare system or your laboratory information system

can be used to track what the positivity rate of these tests are.

That can help inform what's going on much closer to where you're actually practicing.

Well, during the COVID pandemic, wastewater in local communities was a factor when health care departments were assessing recommendations for mask wearing or things like that.

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