{"id":121352,"date":"2022-07-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=121352"},"modified":"2022-07-24T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T17:07:24","slug":"mississippi-state-department-of-health-offering-free-at-home-covid-19-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-state-department-of-health-offering-free-at-home-covid-19-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi State Department of Health Offering Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 Starting Monday, July 25, 2022, free at-home <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> tests will be available at all <strong>Mississippi State Department of Health<\/strong> (MSDH) county health departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each family can receive eight tests (four packages) of <strong>BinaxNOW<\/strong> antigen rapid self-tests per month. No doctor\u2019s note or documentation of any kind is necessary. These tests are not for resale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tests may be picked up without an appointment during regular health department hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find hours of operation of a county health department near you, visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.HealthyMS.com\/locations\">HealthyMS.com\/locations<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are homebound, please order tests for delivery through <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.covid.org\">www.covid.org<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a positive home test result, you can report it to MSDH online at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/HealthyMS.com\/positive\">HealthyMS.com\/positive<\/a><\/strong>. Reporting test results helps MSDH monitor COVID-19 activity in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For questions regarding at-home testing or reporting positive results, call the COVID-19 hotline at 877-978-6453.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 Starting Monday, July 25, 2022, free at-home COVID-19 tests will be available at all Mississippi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":121353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16346],"tags":[21949,16052,21948,5,16144,16356],"class_list":["post-121352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","tag-binaxnow","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-tests","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-state-department-of-health","tag-msdh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BinaxNOW.jpg?fit=1486%2C991&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}