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.

Home COVID tests use strips that contain antibodies to a critical protein present in COVID-19, explains Hokeness. When you swab your nostril with the supplied swab and apply the sample to the test ...

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 ...

In the U.S., for both PCR tests and the recently ubiquitous at-home tests, the nasal swab is now the norm. Many other countries have long complemented the nasal swab with a throat swab, known as ...

Wondering where to buy at home COVID test kits? Find out where to buy them, how accurate they are and how to use them. Brands include QuickVue, BinaxNOW and more.

A rapid antigen test is a screening tool – it can indicate that you might be infected, but you need a PCR test to confirm the result.

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 ...

For more sensitive testing, get a PCR test and send your swab away You can also purchase a home test kit for PCR testing, which is currently the "gold standard" for coronavirus diagnostics.

The PCR test currently used to test for COVID-19 was, indeed, created for that use. It's not a vaccine in disguise.

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.