Some testers gently swab the front of your nostril and send you on your way. Others dig deep, bringing the pain. What’s the gold standard? By Livia Albeck-Ripka and John Yoon One Canadian said it felt ...

To collect a throat sample, stick out your tongue, find your tonsils, and swab back and forth. Swab your throat before your nose! Wash your hands and refrain from eating or drinking for 30 minutes ...

As Americans scramble for at-home tests to find out if they’re infected with COVID-19, some experts are suggesting they should swab their throat, in addition to their nose, to better detect the ...

Lots of folks on Twitter say that swabbing your throat in addition to your nose may be a better way of using your COVID-19 testing kit to detect the omicron variant. Is this true? If you've used a ...

Thea van de Mortel teaches into the Graduate Infection Prevention and Control program at Griffith University. You can now buy rapid antigen tests in supermarkets and pharmacies to test yourself at ...

Nose swabs for rapid COVID-19 tests didn't pick up Omicron in the early stage of infection, a small study found. The study, which isn't published, suggests that with Omicron, virus particles peak ...