Separate yourself from other people and pets in your home.Do not go to restaurants to pick-up or carry out food, avoid visits to essential businesses, etc. Do not go to work or spend time in public places.Staying home until your results are known helps stop potential spread in our community. Because your results are unknown immediately after testing, it’s critical you stay home.What should you do while you wait for results? DC Health does not guarantee result availability to meet patient specific deadlines. Individuals who do not have an active email address will receive a copy of their results in the mail. When available, results will be sent to the email address used during registration. Results generally take 3-5 days to become available. In order to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 tests for all DC residents, individuals who require reasonable accommodations or are unable to complete an at home COVID-19 PCR test or a COVID-19 rapid antigen test may call 1-85 to request a home testing appointment.Walk-up testing: If you are walking, please remain 6 feet from other individuals while you wait and cover your cough and sneeze Testing Access What should I do while I wait to be swabbed? During this test you may feel some discomfort, including nose irritation or minor bleeding. What is the process for COVID-19 testing? While not required, it strongly recommended that you create a profile before visiting a drive-up site. Simply follow the self-registration guidance and your information is easily and quickly available to the site staff upon your arrival. Visit coronavirus.dc.gov/register to create a profile from your smartphone, tablet, or computer. However, self-registration is strongly encouraged. Do I need an appointment?Īppointments are no longer needed for any of the District’s walk-up sites. If an individual needs a test and their provider is unable to give them a test, that individual should come to one of the District’s walk-up sites. If an individual needs a COVID-19 test and they do not have a provider, there are a number of options to obtain a test and a provider. Individuals are encouraged to get tested through their own health care provider so that when the test results come back the patient is already connected to the health care they need. Why are individuals encouraged to get tested through their health care provider? While you wait for your results, protect our community by staying home.
You DO NOT need a doctor's note for any of the walk-in sites. Then Quarantine.ĭC residents, 3 years of age and older, experiencing any COVID-19 symptom (fever, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, congestion, body aches, chills, runny nose) or with known exposure to COVID-19 should get a COVID-19 test. Register SAME-DAY for your COVID PCR test at coronavirus.dc.gov/register or go to your nearest COVID Center to register on-site, no appointment necessary. Sites are only open for drop offs on Sundays. You must 18 years and older to pick up a PCR test kit.Īt the COVID Centers, individuals will have access to vaccinations, boosters, and take-home rapid antigen tests as well as a new walk-up testing opportunity which will allow residents to administer and register a PCR test themselves. PCR test kit pick up and drop-off sites will be open for pick up from 10 am until 6 pm samples can be dropped off at all sites until 8 pm. Monday through Saturday, pick up or drop off an at-home PCR test at any of the 36 drop box locations below.
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