Testing Question

[Melissa518]

Hello everyone,

I feel like I'm starting to lose it with all these testing requirements. It doesn't help that my older son was sick this week and he did about 5 COVID tests. All thankfully negative.....but I've been stressed. Anyways, My 5 year old (unvaccinated/falls under the grace period) can test tomorrow. We set sail on Tuesday. Does anyone know if he can do the rapid Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) at Walgreens? I was going to pay for him to get a PCR somewhere, but if I could do it at Walgreens it would be a heck of a lot easier. I wasn't sure if there was a difference between rapid NAAT and just a regular NAAT.

Thanks

 

[Doingitagain]

Hello everyone,

I feel like I'm starting to lose it with all these testing requirements. It doesn't help that my older son was sick this week and he did about 5 COVID tests. All thankfully negative.....but I've been stressed. Anyways, My 5 year old (unvaccinated/falls under the grace period) can test tomorrow. We set sail on Tuesday. Does anyone know if he can do the rapid Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) at Walgreens? I was going to pay for him to get a PCR somewhere, but if I could do it at Walgreens it would be a heck of a lot easier. I wasn't sure if there was a difference between rapid NAAT and just a regular NAAT.

Thanks

No personal experience, but to ease your worries I believe I read that some have used Walgreens for their pre-test. The issue with Walgreens is that they only do it for age 3 and older from what I am seeing (but that isn't an issue for you).