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.

Coronavirus testing will be an important tool for lifting restrictions. Here's a look at the COVID-19 tests available now or in the works.

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 ...

Everlywell Vault Health offers a saliva test kit for $119, while Everlywell offers a nasal swab kit for $109. Both companies promise to return test results within 24 to 48 hours.

PCR tests, however, are processed in labs and can take 24-48 hours to get a result.

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.

A recent real-world study that followed 30 subjects likely exposed to omicron found that PCR saliva tests can catch Covid-19 cases three days before rapid antigen tests, which use nasal swabs.

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 ...

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.

One of the best ways to figure out how far a virus like COVID-19 has spread in a community is to test for it. This step-by-step guide explains how coronavirus swab-the-nose-and-throat tests work ...

The point-of-care tests are a fast and cheap, though less accurate, way of detecting the virus compared to sending nasal swabs to a lab.

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 ...