- Long COVID Has Forced a Reckoning for One of Medicine’s Most Neglected Diseases

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Sean Strub

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Sep 27, 2022, 1:48:19 PM9/27/22
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Karen Haycox

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Sep 27, 2022, 2:53:49 PM9/27/22
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I'm curious about the different methodologies using the traditional swab tests. I've read conflicting points of view -- some on social media/some off -- regarding the efficacy of adding throat/cheek swabbing when using at-home COVID swab kits. 

I have been traveling in different groups lately and so have taken to doing the tests regularly -- I've stayed with the as-directed-on-the-box approach, nasal-swabbing only -- but is there a definitive point of view on this yet?  thanks any/all,

Karen

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Scott Aronin

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Sep 28, 2022, 10:25:34 PM9/28/22
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There is evidence for saliva and/or throat swabs since Omicron has been the dominant variant. There's more virus and sooner in these areas in infected people.
The first link is a pre-print study. The NY Times article links a couple of more studies.
I've been swabbing first throat and then nose since early in Omicron's dominant phase.

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