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Originally Posted by TLO
The Q-Tip still tickles part of your brain, but not the whole thing. They still jam it up there pretty good. It's crucial you let them so that they get a good sample.
Outside of that it takes about 15 minutes to get results. The jury is out on how accurate the rapid tests are. I think antigen testing is somewhere in the range of 80-85% accurate. The Abbot machine I've had 2 tests done on seem to be a mystery as far as accuracy goes. (I've seen claims of up to 95%, but back when it was released, there was a fuss over people possibly using it incorrectly causing it to only identify like 50% of cases accurately)
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Ive probably said this before but my county has the newer non invasive test that only swabs the inside of the nostril. I wonder why more states and counties still have the brain pokers?