Anyone had a Covid test to fly to the USA and needed an extra doctor’s letter?

[Lissie87]

We’re flying on Saturday, antigen tests booked at a clinic on the Friday, but the clinic says:

‘If your destination requires you to have a supervised test, you may also need a doctor’s letter, which you can purchase here’.

It’s £25 extra each for the doctor’s letter… so if it’s not necessary I don’t want to pay that on top of the test fee… and I can’t find info anywhere else about needing one. Any ideas? Is it required or just the clinic trying to upsell? The clinic doesn’t have a number for me to call a real human 😒

TIA

I've just got back from the USA and didn't need a letter from the GP just needed to show the COVID test results.

nope never needed a letter and ive been to the usa a few times since the ban was lifted, only ever had a supervised lateral flow

Same here. Went to USA two weeks ago.
just do the antigen test the day before and show the certificate from that. No need for a GP letter.
The GP letter is if you choose to forgo an antigen test and use a recovery certificate to travel (if you’ve had covid in the last 90 days you can use one of those and a GP letter).
Far easier to do the antigen test

You need a certifcate to say that it was a supervised test and it is negative.

It is possible that the clinic that you have picked require you to pay extra to get that - certainly the US ones have been more expensive to include a video call

What have you actually bought from the clinic so far - I think this is about the clinic rather than the US requirements (who simple require a certificate signed by a medical professional). Mine witn Breathe Assured was 29 as opposed to Europe 14

Thanks for these. Sounds mostly reassuring!

@Quartz2208 Good point. I don’t think they mean the certificate when they say doctor’s letter. We’ve just ordered and paid for the supervised test. Perhaps I’m naive to think the certificate comes with that. Either way, I’m sure if it turned out we needed to pay for the certificate we could do that there on the day rather than pre-paying?

Reading the post again I dont think you do need a certificate (you certainly dont need a fit to fly for the US)