RE:RE:RE:RE:Camel toe moe and Sona bag holders The problem is not with saliva as a sample but in the tests themselves. With all the news out by THRM ...they have met the challenge!!!
The following is from a Canadian study done at McGill University and published in January.
“Nasopharyngeal swabs are very sensitive, but they are time-consuming and require a trained health professional to administer. Saliva-based samples are as sensitive and much cheaper, while having the advantage of being self-collected. This removes the need for a trained health professional and reduces exposure risk,” explains the corresponding author of the study, Jonathon Campbell, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the RI-MUHC. “Adopting saliva-based sampling could free up much-needed health professionals for clinical care and vaccine administration, while maintaining the high level of testing necessary to keep up with the COVID-19 pandemic.”
https://muhc.ca/news-and-patient-stories/releases/saliva-samples-covid-19-testing-good-nasopharyngeal-swabs-cheaper
TheeRook wrote: Read about the difficulties of Saliva testing. Then read how the companies / groups that test Saliva overcame the problems of testing Saliva.
THRM does not give much into how they are doing it.
BUt all these companies indicate U can not test saliva directly with any consistency which SONA found out.
BC Health Swish and Gargle Saliva test gives some good color on it.
CODX - CO DIAGNOSTICS has been testing Saliva since the beginning of Covid19
Saliva Direct - Yale School of Public Health
Chrisvaughan wrote: These saliva tests i would think are all based on the same science I would think, I have shsres here but sonas news has me rethinking