Hal Taggert

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, conducted a small, prognostic study to compare the diagnostic equivalence of patient-collected lower nasal swabs with that of the standard method of testing involving healthcare worker-collected oropharyngeal swabs. The results of this study, which were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that samples collected by patents who swabbed their own nasal passages yielded results for the COVID-19 virus that were as accurate as samples collected by the healthcare workers. Read Article ›