The majority of school districts will also be closed, along with some liquor stores in states with stricter laws (which includes Massachusetts). It will also be harder to find banks open on Veterans Day 2015, however. Here is a larger list of those that will be closed on November 11 (via the Huffington Post). Bank First National; Bank of America
Sometimes, doctors do a throat culture instead of a rapid strep test. A throat culture is more accurate than a rapid strep test, but the results take longer (2-3 days) to come back.
A rapid test gives a result within about 10 minutes. But sometimes the test doesn't show strep even when it is present. A culture takes one or two days but is better at finding all cases of strep. If the rapid strep test is positive and says that you do have strep, there's no need to do the throat culture.