Can you use expired Covid tests? What to know as cases rise, new variants emerge

Americans are being advised not to discard unused at-home COVID-19 tests that may have passed their expiration dates, as the FDA has extended the expiration dates of many popular at-home test products amid a surge in COVID-19 cases in the US.

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