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Self-Swab COVID-19 Home Testing Found Comparable – Medscape
Researchers compared the accuracy of at-home COVID-19 testing with that of traditional, clinician-administered assays.
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Symptomatic people seeking COVID-19 testing can effectively swab themselves at home, suggests a new study, which found that the results of such testing were comparable to those involving traditional nasopharyngeal swabbing by clinicians.
Home swab testing was 80% sensitive and 98% specific for detecting SARS-CoV-2 compared with testing administered by clinicians.
“As we continue to see a large…
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