COVID test that’s fast and accurate arrives in Alabama Updated 1:21 PM; Today 1:21 PM UAB’s campus has changed drastically over the years. What was once residential homeson Eighth Avenue South is now Volker Hall, the UAB School of Medicine building. Facebook Share Alabama is among the first states nationwide to receive a small allotment of new, highly accurate, rapid COVID-19 tests recently approved by the FDA. The new tests combine the speed of the current rapid antigen tests, which are known to be inaccurate, with the reliability of the nasal-swab PCR tests, which can take days to gen...