Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How long should kids isolate after they've contracted COVID-19?

School policies that require students with COVID-19 to stay out of the classroom for five days are more than sufficient. That's because children infected with the omicron variant remained infectious for a median time of three ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Examining the dynamics of COVID-19's pandemic peak

The SARS-CoV-2 virus swept across the globe at the beginning of 2020, and one of the earliest and hardest-hit areas of the United States was New Jersey.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

When RAT-testing for COVID, should you also swab your throat?

We're now pretty used to swabbing our nose to test for COVID when we have a scratchy throat or new cough. But should we also be using our rapid antigen test (RAT) to swab our throat, as some social media sources suggest?

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Saliva testing for COVID-19 quicker, safer than nasal swabs

Genetic testing of saliva samples identifies the SARS-CoV-2 virus more quickly than testing of nasal swabs. The research is published March 21 in Microbiology Spectrum, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.  

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