Ohio to spend $50M on at-home rapid Covid-19 antigen tests

The state of Ohio will send two million at-home Covid-19 rapid antigen tests to local health departments in another arm of the effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The deal with Abbott Laboratories and telemedicine company eMed is paid for with $50 million from the federal CARES Act, Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday. "We think this will be very, very helpful to slowing the spread," he said. "If we get a hot spot, if we get an outbreak in a factory, we can move in very quickly." Local health…