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A step-by-step guide to swabbing your throat for COVID-19, which may help detect Omicron on rapid tests

To collect a proper throat sample for a COVID-19 rapid test, stick out your tongue, find your tonsi…

Hilary Brueck,Aria Bendix   


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Oral, nasal, urine samples necessary for monkeypox diagnosis: ICMR

The study, 'A fatal case of monkeypox virus infection from Kerala, India, 2022' has been publi…

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Bill Gates is funding a new at-home COVID-19 testing programme and it's already testing 300 people a day

The system is called the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) and will send home nasal swa…

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Self-administered nasal swabs pilot testing begins at Amazon warehouses

Seattle, June 10 (IANS) Amazon has begun testing some warehouse employees at its facilities in the …

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A new coronavirus variant found in France can hide from COVID-19 nasal-swab tests

The French health ministry announced Monday that it has identified a new coronavirus strain, and pa…

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Lab workers in Indonesia have been accused of reusing nasal COVID-19 swabs in as many as 20,000 tests

The workers are accused of using new swabs to test someone, then washing, repackaging, and using th…

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Amazon has received FDA authorization for a COVID-19 test that can be carried out at home using nasal swabs

The tech company received the green light from the Food and Drug Administration amid efforts to boo…

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'Swab your throat first and then your nose': 4 disease experts offer new guidance on COVID-19 rapid tests

There's evidence Omicron appears earlier in saliva than in the nose. Experts say it may be a sign o…

Aria Bendix,Hilary Brueck   


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Rapid COVID-19 tests can miss Omicron if they don't require a throat swab, a small study suggests

Nose-only tests didn't detect Omicron for one to two days after initial infection, a study found. E…

Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce   


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A Maine factory says it will have to discard all coronavirus swabs made during Trump's factory tour

Puritan is one of only two companies in the world making the swabs in coronavirus tests. It's uncle…

Mara Leighton   


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Low-cost indigenous swab for coronavirus testing developed

It was a joint project of C-MET (which comes under theMinistry of Electronics and Information Techn…

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Self-swabbing COVID-19 tests accurate, safe: Stanford study

In the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 30 participants, who pr…

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A woman's brain fluid leaked into her nose after getting a nasal COVID-19 test

A woman's COVID-19 test aggravated an undiagnosed skull defect, causing brain fluid to leak into he…

Anna Medaris Miller   


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Nasal samples from dead bodies be collected for COVID-19 test before sending to mortuary: ICMR

During autopsy or while handling the dead body, if anyone get accidental occupational exposure with…

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China's plan for anal swabs to test for COVID-19 is 'not nice but it's the obvious thing to do,' says a microbiology professor

Anal swabs could be a useful coronavirus test, because there's virus in faeces, a microbiology prof…

Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce   


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Rite Aid says it's opening free, self-swab coronavirus testing sites in 7 states

"Through our partnership with the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and with tremendous support f…

Hayley Peterson   


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Humans are spilling the COVID-19 virus back into wildlife! Study finds widespread infection in backyard animals

Genetic analysis of wild animals has revealed not only the presence of SARS-CoV-2, but also the eme…