The unlikely place to find COVID-19 tests

If you've tried to purchase an at-home COVID-19 test at a national pharmacy chain in the past few weeks you've likely struck out. It won't get any easier anytime soon, either, as schools welcome students back for in-person learning while the Omicron variant continues to surge — fueling more demand for regular testing and further straining test supplies.

But some savvy consumers have discovered that at-home COVID-19 tests are available from an unlikely source: Telemedicine company Ro. At its inception in 2017, under the name Roman, the company billed itself as a men's health care company providing discreet treatments for conditions including erectile dysfunction and hair loss.

Visit Ro's website and you can purchase up to 12 packs of Intrivo Diagnostics' On/Go COVID-19 rapid antigen self test kit per transaction. The only catch is that at $30 for two tests, the kits are slightly more expensive than currently unavailable varieties, like Abbott Labs' BinaxNow antigen self-test kit, which when in stock, retails for $23.99 at CVS Pharmacy.