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The US is starting 2024 in its second-largest COVID surge ever, experts say (www.today.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

With recent variants it seems that it's possible to test negative on a nasal swab but positive on a throat swab.

https://www.ontariohealth.ca/sites/ontariohealth/files/2022-02/COVID-19RapidAntigenTests-HowtoCollectaSample.pdf

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Be sure to do both nose and throat, instead of one or the other. The latest variant is present in your lungs again (so it gets in your nose), unlike Omicron.

“BA.2.86 has regained a trait characteristic of early SARS-CoV-2 lineages: robust lung cell entry,” the authors wrote.

https://fortune.com/well/2024/01/08/covid-omicron-variants-pirola-ba286-jn1-more-severe-disease-lung-gi-tract-symptoms/