Kroger Health To Offer 15-Minute COVID-19 Antibody Testing

Kroger Health, the health care division of the grocery store chain Kroger, has announced plans to start offering tests to tell if an individual has antibodies of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which would indicate if a person has previously had the virus and may have some immunity to it. Licensed Kroger health care staff would administer the finger-prick blood sample antibody test on site with plans to return results within about 15 minutes.

The FDA-authorized rapid antibody tests will initially be available only at Kroger pharmacies in California (where the stores operate under the brand name . . .