The days leading up to the Winter Games are a psychological minefield under normal circumstances. But the ongoing pandemic has intensified that stress with athletes knowing a positive COVID test could mean they won’t compete at all.

Located in Ypsilanti, Brighton and Monroe, the sites offer no-cost saliva-based PCR tests between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day.

LynxDx opens a new location as cases driven by the omicron variant rise in area, state.

The University of Michigan Athletic Department shares more details about its updated spectator policy as regional COVID cases surge.

The Canadian government is reinstating testing requirements for vaccinated travelers returning to the country after short foreign trips:

A Metro Detroit man was hit with a hospital bill for more than $600 after he got a COVID-19 test.

When testing for an active COVID infection -- meaning the person is still contagious -- the administrator swabs the nose, back of the nose or saliva to test. The accuracy of the test will depend on how well that sample was collected, along with what test is actually being used. The best test is called a PCR test, which uses a lab technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR). It is the most sensitive COVID-19 test available and helps tell how infectious a person actually is. See how the PCR test works in the video report above.