People are posting on social media that they’re getting positive COVID results after swabbing their throat for an at-home rapid test rather than doing the recommended nasal swab. In a TikTok with more ...

AUSTIN, Texas — After a trend on social media, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns about safety concerns in swabbing your throat for an at-home COVID-19 test. Throughout most of the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic yielded important advances in testing for respiratory viruses, but it also exposed important unmet needs in screening to prevent the spread of infections in high-risk settings.

People with coronavirus infections of the omicron variant often have significantly different viral levels in their noses, throats and saliva, and testing just a single type of sample is likely to miss ...

We’re now pretty used to swabbing our nose to test for COVID when we have a scratchy throat or new cough. But should we also be using our rapid antigen test (RAT) to swab our throat, as some social ...

If you frequent the Harvard Square T station, you may have seen sign boards urging you to “Swab your nose, get $2” in order to “Help detect the next pandemic.” Those signs are part of a program called ...