{"id":943,"date":"2020-08-21T13:34:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T12:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/?p=943"},"modified":"2021-01-20T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T16:55:35","slug":"need-a-fit-to-fly-test-and-dreading-the-swabs-tfa-introduces-saliva-based-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/need-a-fit-to-fly-test-and-dreading-the-swabs-tfa-introduces-saliva-based-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreading the swabs? Introducing saliva based testing"},"content":{"rendered":"
Experts have reiterated over the past few months how testing for COVID-19 is the key to getting back to normal. Currently, the most widespread method of testing for viral presence is the <\/span>nasopharyngeal<\/span> swab, which is rather invasive and uncomfortable as it involves poking the back of patients\u2019 nose and throat with a long q-tip up… Medical professionals and researchers all over the world have been looking for alternative ways of testing and might have found a solution: saliva based testing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Testing For All is looking to be amongst the first providers of saliva based testing in the UK, so watch this space !<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Experts have reiterated over the past few months how testing for COVID-19 is the key to getting back to normal. Currently, the most widespread method of testing for viral presence is the nasopharyngeal swab, which is rather invasive and uncomfortable as it involves poking the back of patients\u2019 nose and throat with a long q-tip […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[47,54,55,51,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23034,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/23034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingforall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Saliva based testing can be seen as an improvement over the standard nasopharyngeal swab for many reasons:\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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