As confirmed cases of coronavirus continue to rise across the nation, local and state leaders are scrambling to provide adequate testing for communities, and as telemedicine rises in popularity, virtual health companies are looking for ways to streamline the testing process without requiring patients to leave their homes.
Health platform 1Health.io has launched the first telehealth-supervised COVID-19 self-collection kits to drugstores like Vitagene and GNC, with 50,000 kits immediately available, according to a news release.
Company officials said 1Health.io and its lab partners are ramping up to provide 300,000 test kits by May to increase widespread testing capacity in the U.S.