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Omicron Alert: There’s a (Very!) Thin Line Between Safe and Unsafe

She thought her at-home COVID test gave her clearance to socialize, then Jennifer Rapaport realized her mistake. Here's what you need to know about reading test results.

I have taken no small number of at-home pregnancy tests in my life—beginning during my days as a 20-something health writer and editor in New York right up through my perimenopausal late 40s—with an often-pregnant pause of about 10 years somewhere in the middle. And, yes, most of those tests were either overly cautious or gun-jumpingly unnecessary, but the point is: I can read an at-home test. Or at least I thought I could.

TMI? Bear with me.

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