News Taking an at-home COVID test? Here’s how to swab your nose Tips for how to properly collect your sample depend on the type of nasal swab the kit requires.

You may have noticed that more and more people are testing positive for COVID-19 after using a rapid test to swab their throats. The trend took off on Twitter this past week, and unlike most of ...

A simple home PCR test saved me from that inconvenience (and worse ... You collect a sample with a swab, as you would with other tests, insert that swab into the liquid, and then remove the swab. You ...

These tests can be slightly less sensitive than nasal tests that use a long swab to gather a mucous sample, but both are considered viable at-home testing options.

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A PCR COVID test looks for evidence that the virus is currently in your body by detecting its presence in a swab sample from your nose or throat. Therefore, a PCR test can only tell you if the virus ...

That's compared with two to three days for a PCR test at a testing site, an hour or so for a rapid PCR test and 15 to 30 minutes for rapid antigen tests.

Anyone who has had a COVID-19 PCR test done knows the drill — a swab up the nose and then the tester pops the swab into a plastic bag and off it goes. That’s when the hard work begins of ...

A COVID-19 test swab in a vial. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) This article is more than 3 years old. COVID-19 cases are on the rise in Massachusetts. The positive test rate has more than doubled over the ...