Should you do a throat swab with an at-home Covid test?
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“They may stab themselves.” The United Kingdom’s National Health Service recommends swabbing both the nose and the throat when using a rapid antigen, or later flow, Covid test, the kind used at home. The Israeli Health Ministry early this week also advised people to swab both their nose and their throat when using rapid at-home tests.“The virus grows in your nose and throat and somewhat at different time scales,” Michael Mina, chief science officer for the biotech software company eMed, who was an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said at a testing technology news briefing this week. User error will likely be higher with self-administered throat swabs compared with nasal swabs, he said.“There’s no intrinsic reason that if you swabbed the back of your throat and that’s where a lot of the virus is, and you had a really good sample, that a throat swab wouldn’t work with a rapid test,” he said.
As said here by Kaitlin Sullivan