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Even if they can find a test, not everyone wants to know they have COVID

By Yuki Noguchi | February 02, 2022

Even if they can find a test, not everyone wants to know they have COVID

Health experts are noticing a worrisome trend — More and more people are making a choice about whether to test for COVID or not and are withholding the results in an effort to avoid disruptions to their personal or professional life. This makes it much harder to measure the real number of COVID-19 cases and leaves the most vulnerable at risk.

Accolade chief medical officer Dr. Shantanu Nundy shares some of the challenges he personally faces in testing low-income patients that he mostly treats. Read this article to find out what health experts are seeing across communities when it comes to testing and how this growing trend can impact the control and spread of the COVID-19 virus.

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