My test kits arrived this afternoon! 2 boxes of 2 each quick vue. May they sit on

[niyad]

the shelf, unneeded and unused!

34 hours after 5th jab. .No side effects! Sighhhhhh. I was really hoping for that third arm.

[dem4decades]

1. Just used a bunch, was positive for a week. Happy to get resupplied.

[niyad]

2. When I was at a local safeway the other day, a sign indicated that, with

some insurances, inclucing medicaid, one could get 8 free kits every 30 days. I plan to have enough to pass to those who need them.

[dem4decades]

11. Thanks, I'll check that out. on Medicare but have good secondary. Paid $25 for 1 box of 5 from

Costco last week.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. So Did Ours!

We got the Binax Now tests. We got QuickVue the last time.

[niyad]

5. I just checked the package. Looks like they expire on Valentine's Day.

No shelf life?

[ProfessorGAC]

12. They Have A Shelf Life, But...

...manufacturers have extended shelf lives but lot number series. You can check them out of the market. website or a CDC link.
That said, I'm not throwing any of them out.
After researching the reagents, I cannot fathom a mechanism by which the reactions or indicators would degrade is kept from extreme temperature, are kept dry & the envelopes and swabs are still sealed.
Absent hard data, the FDA is always going to insist on a very cautiously short expiration period, without lot retesting. That latter step would be hard to randomize when millions of kits are in people's homes worldwide. So, they made no provision for extrapolating expiration dates.
Limited sampling of held inventory (not really random) have convinced everyone that extended useful life dates were reasonable.
But, I don't believe the actually expire, so I'm doing it my way. I'm recommending nothing. It's a personal decision.
That said, there are several websites where you can donate "expired" tests to be sent to lesser economically able regions of the world. They have a sampling based revalidation and when (not if) they pass are moved on where they will do the most good.
So, don't throw them away. There are better options.

[niyad]

18. I passed out most of the ones I got before, as several friends had covid, and went

through a number of test kits.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Another Fine Option

Good plan, niyad!

[niyad]

20. I like to share wherever I can.

[doc03]

4. I ordered my tests last Thursday, they came in the mail on Monday. nt

[niyad]

7. I ordered mine on Thursday as well. Got a text Friday saying they would be

delivered today. I am impressed.

[Mr.Bill]

6. Got mine today, too.

Different brand than last time. Four tests in one box.

[niyad]

8. I had not realized that there are now so many different kits out there.

[Mr.Bill]

9. When there's lots of government money budgeted for something,

Any company who can make it will.

[niyad]

10. I keep remembering the deliberate fiasco when TRAITOR** and plastic ken-doll

were in charge.

[XanaDUer2]

13. Just got mine nt

[niyad]

21. YES!!!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. Cool. When did you order? Ordered again last week. But never

Got first batch a couple years ago?

[niyad]

16. doc03 and I bith ordered last Thursday. Doc's were delivered yesterday, mine

today. I got both orders the last round as well.

Strange that you did not get yours last time.

[NutmegYankee]

15. What's the website for these?

[niyad]

17. here:

https://special.usps.com/testkits

was the link posted here last week, and it was the one I used. good luck.