Israel is using throat swabs to catch Covid faster — here's why we're not, according to Dr. Fauci (via CNBCMakeIt)
an instructional video on its website to show how to take a nose and throat sample with a single swab.
At the Senate hearing, Woodcock said the FDA could "act very rapidly" to approve the new method if research confirms its effectiveness, but manufacturers would need to "change the test configuration to accommodate the larger swab."Other medical professionals in the U.S. are preaching caution, too. But, he noted, more research is needed to confirm his results. "There's a known risk of false negatives with nasal swabs and an unknown risk of false positives with throat swabs," he said.
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