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A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine, with the participation of Drs. Todd Lee, Emily McDonald and Nandini Dendukuri of the IDIGH Program, confirms the efficiency of saliva testing for COVID-19. This publication could influence global public health policies, who are hesitant to implement saliva tests, in the testing strategies to fight against COVID-19.
Previous studies on the performance of saliva tests showed mixed results, but most of them compared saliva tests to the standard nasal swab test, as if it was a perfect test. Interestingly, there are no perfect tests for COVID-19—Dr Guillaume Butler-Laporte, first author of the study.
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- Original article in JAMA (anglais)
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Dr. Martin Olivier in The Conversation.
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