Saliva samples preferable to deep nasal swabs for testing COVID-19

Saturday, April 25, 2020 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

As testing for the novel coronavirus continues to scale up, a new study finds that saliva samples are a “preferable” indicator for infection than the deep nasal swabs now widely used. The study led by the Yale School of Public Health — and conducted at Yale New Haven Hospital with 44 inpatients and 98 health […]

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