{"id":975,"date":"2020-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/2020\/09\/24\/united-first-u-s-airline-to-offer-covid-19-testing-for-passengers\/"},"modified":"2020-09-25T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:10:06","slug":"united-first-u-s-airline-to-offer-covid-19-testing-for-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/2020\/09\/24\/united-first-u-s-airline-to-offer-covid-19-testing-for-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"United First U.S. Airline to Offer COVID-19 Testing for Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Rapid test at airport provides results in about 20 minutes and will cost &#36;250<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Sept. 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The first COVID-19 testing program for airline passengers in the United States will be introduced Oct. 15 by United Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers traveling from San Francisco to Hawaii can either order an at-home testing kit or reserve a time for a rapid test at the airport, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The rapid test at San Francisco International Airport &#8212; already available to airport and airline employees &#8212; provides results in about 20 minutes and will cost $250. The at-home kit will cost $80 plus shipping and will be sent to a San Francisco lab for processing, and passengers will have results within 48 hours, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii has had restrictions on tourists since March. But starting next month, the state will waive its two-week quarantine rule for travelers who have proof of a negative COVID-19 test result within 72 hours prior to arrival. United hopes to eventually expand testing options to other U.S. cities like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/united-airlines-covid-testing-program\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CBS News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid test at airport provides results in about 20 minutes and will cost &#36;250<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-34-224-182-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/dermatology.healthcare.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}