My company just sent out an email to employees requiring home testing for CV soon for those, such as myself, who acknowledge we have not been vaxxed or choose to not disclose. I should preface that I work part-time at home and part-time in the office.
I am to order a kit named, “At-Home Antigen Test Kit Box” made by Abbott BinaxNOW.
The instructions detail how to use a swab up my nose and then test the results by the use of a cartridge.
I’m writing you all because I am hesitant to place their swab up my nose. I have read articles that warn of possible contamination of the swabs - some even go so far as to suggest some swabs are intentionally contaminated with the virus. Rather startling if true.
I have wondered if it is possible to blow my nose into a tissue and swab from the tissue instead of my nose. I’ve tried to locate any discussion of this possibility but have not found any information.
By the way, it appears from the instructions that all materials are discarded after the test and do not have to be sent to a lab or anyone else, so they would not be able to find particles from the tissue and come back with a complaint of not following the procedures properly.
Would appreciate some advice or possibly some resources that may discuss a technique like this.
Thanks in advance.
pee on it...
then send it in...
Here's a link: Specimen Collection Swabs
You may end up with a whole bunch of extra swabs, but it beats the alternative.
since you are doing the test at home, and are suspect of the virus being on the swab itself, why don’t you test the swab as is?.....if there is virus, it will show.....then tell the company that your swab slipped and fell on the floor, could you get another testing kit?...
This is a test involving a small group of people.
It is designed to determine the efficacy of the anti-gen test.
You are allowed to declare your participation in the control group.
Made in China?
“I have wondered if it is possible to blow my nose into a tissue and swab from the tissue instead of my nose. I’ve tried to locate any discussion of this possibility but have not found any information.”
That may be the maximum intrusion that I would allow, for me.
“By the way, it appears from the instructions that all materials are discarded after the test and do not have to be sent to a lab or anyone else, so they would not be able to find particles from the tissue and come back with a complaint of not following the procedures properly.”
Okay, so if this is the case, why bother with the test at all? Why not just say you ran the test on yourself and it came up negative?
But if I were you, I would order the test swabs from the American company to have on hand in case the testing procedures change. I might check them out and order them myself in case I am made to test.
Thanks to whoever put up the the link.
If your company is not making you send in the swabs or film yourself swabbing yourself, it sounds like they just want to cover themselves by saying they are requiring testing and they provided approved testing kits. So just say you are testing. What your company doesn’t know won’t hurt them.
How often are you supposed to do the test?
We were told today we will have to have the swab test or the antibody test. Having my blood drawn every week because I don’t want the swab. We have to drive ourselves, on our own time, to be tested before work.
Such a waste of time, gas, and blood. It’s coercion, plain and simple.
(Sorry, I know that's not helpful. This is all just so dystopian that my sarcasm has reached near 100% levels.)
I see you’ve gotten some great ideas. Yeah.. blow your nose and do it that way.
Or test a mango? Tell them you got the Abbott and Costello version of the swabs??
OMG, I’d get it wet with tap water lololol.
Petey