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Epidemiol Serv Saude. 2022 Apr 15;31(1):e2021409. doi: 10.1590/S1679-49742022000100002. eCollection 2022.
OBJECTIVE: To show the feasibility of the combined use of self-collected nasopharyngeal swab and pool testing to detect SARS-CoV-2 in
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President Joe Biden mourned the one million American lives lost to the pandemic on Thursday, and said flags will be flown at half-staff at the White House and all public buildings, grounds, military posts and naval vessels until sunset on May 16 to honor the dead.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized a first-of-its-kind test that detects coronavirus using breath samples. The agency says the test delivers results within three minutes, but cautioned that it would fail to detect nearly one in 10 positive cases.
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WithSecure and Cue Health have worked together to address a security issue that WithSecure discovered in Cue’s COVID-19 test, which delivers the results of a nasal swab test via bluetooth to a mobile device. The issue could have allowed a subset of users to change results within the platform
Jan. 14, 2022 -- As the Omicron variant has swept across the U.S., now blamed for more than 98% of COVID-19 infections, the demand for testing at labs has skyrocketed -- especially since home antigen tests are scarce.
On the rise, too, are complaints from test takers, who echo this anxio
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Tony Keating hopes that millions of smartphone users will soon be coughing into their screens. His company, ResApp Health, in Brisbane, Australia, has developed a smartphone app to anal
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As long as you swab safely, the only downside to this strategy is that you might gag (sorry, this is normal). Say aaaah!
TL;DR: COVID tests only work when you look in the right place at the right time. With the Omicron variant, it seems that viral levels often rise first in the throat (a