Cue Health 17+

Absolutely love this product and the app makes testing super simple/easy. The only issue I have with it is the lack of family profile sharing. If I have the app on my phone and I start a profile, add then add my spouse and children, any other members of the family who want to run a test from their device also have to create a profile and add(/recreate) spouse and children profiles. It makes for redundant data entry and we also don’t have access to our childrens test results taken from another device. I know we can share (and that is admittedly easy enough), but in the hustle and bustle of trying to get kids back to school (and ourselves back to work) and adhering to re-entry rules everywhere, quickly being able to pull up test results for everyone has been something I’ve wished for a couple of times. It would be great if we had a family profile or dashboard of some sort. Love the product! It has already saved our behinds more than once and the technology is just so incredibly cool. Can’t wait to see what else Cue comes up with.

The Cue Health Reader/Swab module is the best thing to hit the at-home Covid Test market since the onset of Covid-19. Sure, it’s more expensive then antigen tests, but because it’s a PCR test it catches nearly all asymptomatic cases. Unlike antigen tests, which often miss cases until symptoms have shown up for a few days. Plus, the ease-of-use is seamless between the app on your phone & the reader. Highly recommended!

Bonus: if you sign up for the annual plan, each test costs $52 and if you can get the $12 refund from your insurance company, the $40 price is only $25 more than at-home antigen tests.

Highly Recommended Five Stars! Used by the NBA & MLB, too.

I’m sure there is some very cool, very advanced science happening behind the scenes in this machine, but the machine itself is horribly designed from a user’s perspective.

The Cue machine is battery powered, but you can’t actually turn the machine off to conserve battery. If the machine is too low on battery, then it can’t run a test until the machine is sufficiently charged. The ultimate effect is that you spend 20 minutes every time you want to test just waiting for the machine to charge so you can run a 25 minute test. The machine can’t be moved while a test is in progress, so it’s unclear what advantage being battery-powered even offers.

Then there are the cartridges. This is probably where most of the magic happens, so they are pricey. However, the failure rate is stunningly high. It’s like flushing $50 down the drain. Sure, they offer to refund you (usually), but by that point, you’ve spent nearly an hour charging your machine and running a test, all to get nothing. And unless you keep a sufficiently high inventory of tests, you could easily run out of them and be stuck with no tests and no results.