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Should You Swab Your Throat Plus Your Nose for COVID?

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Nose-plus-throat could increase test accuracy—but could create problems too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, this is Your Health Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series.

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We bring you the latest vital health news, discoveries that affect your body and your mind.

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And we break down the medical research to help you stay healthy.

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I'm Tanya Lewis.

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I'm Josh Fishman.

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We're Scientific American senior health editors.

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Today we're doing a follow-up episode on the best ways to use home COVID

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antigen tests. This time we're looking at whether you get more accurate results if

0:58.7

you swab your throat as well as your nose. We'll also talk about the new CDC guidelines about how long to isolate

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if you're positive.

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It's February and COVID levels are still quite high in the US.

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They're way above what the CDC describes as epidemic levels,

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