RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Camel toe moe and Sona bag holders This is just stating the obvious, Saliva sampling is easier than NP sampling.
This does not cover the actual testing of the Saliva sample. Which SONA found out is not so easy and why the first test were NP tests , then shallow nasal sampling.
Smokey1958 wrote: 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