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Does "At Home" mean at home, or send the kit from your home to their lab? It looks like I have to ship my DNA to them. That is not "at home". LabCorp has bee
by LinuxBender 7y ago
Does "At Home" mean at home, or send the kit from your home to their lab? It looks like I have to ship my DNA to them. That is not "at home".
LabCorp has been hacked enough times for me to stay far away from them. I was also not impressed with their Lab setup. I had to help other customers input their sensitive data into LabCorp's Kiosk systems because their 2 employees were overloaded. I am happy I left before giving them my data.
No thanks.
- SparkyMcUnicorn 7y agoThe first paragraph mentions it's just a collection kit. Comes with a shipping label.
- drcode 7y agoYeah, I'm hoping we'll see serology tests soon that truly are 100% "at home", operating through a test strip. They already have had these tests available in China and other countries since February, but since the US is apparently a third world country in 2020 we will be lucky to see these tests before 2021.
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- chki 7y agoActually those test strips tests are basically useless at the moment because they have way too many false positives. But I think there is some interesting work, so maybe we will see these tests at some point in an accurate form which would be extremely helpful.
- vl 7y agoYou send your DNA to someone every time you post an envelope. LabCorp is the largest provider doing tests, when you are tested at hospital for example, most likely they will send your sample to them, so there is no difference with doing it at home.
- mypalmike 7y agoNit: I dampen a towel for use with envelopes and stamps. Who wants to lick that stuff?