#COVID COMING BACK TO LIFE HOW TO#
The plan is imperfect, experts say, because not everyone can afford to wait for reimbursement - and the responsibility would fall on consumers to figure out how to file a claim. with private health insurance, you could potentially one day get reimbursed for a Covid test that you buy at the drug store. If you're one of the 150 million people in the U.S. In early December, President Joe Biden announced a plan to require private insurance companies to cover the cost of rapid at-home Covid-19 tests.
If you've ever waited in a long line to get a Covid test, or stressed about getting your results back in time for an event, you know firsthand how the country has been "hamstrung by the delays and challenges with getting PCR tests," Truelove says. Covid tests could get more affordable and accessible That could mean working from home if you're symptomatic but still able to work, or taking a sick day when you know you need to rest, he adds. To that end, Truelove hopes people "take a little bit more personal responsibility and stay home when they're sick," he says. "It's just that we've got to do a better job continuing to do the things we know that work." Timothy Brewer, a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, told CNBC Make It last week. "We don't necessarily have to come up with new interventions ," Dr. Other familiar prevention strategies, like regularly washing your hands and maintaining distancing practices in high-risk settings, could also stick around. If the virus does become more seasonal, wearing a mask on public transit and indoors during Covid season could become the norm - potentially even in offices, says Shaun Truelove, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and member of The Covid Scenario Modeling Hub, a team of researchers who make Covid projections.
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