I work for a school district in New Jersey.. They are requiring weekly testing in order for approximately 25 of us to keep our jobs. They are only providing the nasal swab PRC test, we are requesting the spit test so as to not have that nasal swab.
My department head is going to Trenton next week to present our case (she is based, unvaxxed and told me she will be fired with us!) . I told her i would prepare a folder she could use to aide her in becoming as knowledgeable as possible about this subject. Problem is I have very little printed info on the swabs available for use. Most are videos. I have been searching since yesterday and need your help. If anyone on earth can dig this up for me it's this community!
We are not going to take the swab but will compromise and take the spit test to continue to work...if she is unsuccessful I'll be looking for a new job on Oct 18th...considering I just started this on on 9/1 I'm choosing to fight for it... Please help!
Blessings for your success because I'm at a standstill. Thank you all...
Most places are no longer doing PCR for routine testing they are doing antigen testing.
If you can get out of the PCR testing, the antigen testing is better bc a dry cotton swab is used with no chemicals or anything like that on it. And it doesn’t have to be shoved back in your head like PCR.
But I agree spit test would be better than any nasal test.
i thought they had to draw blood for antigen testing. Are you saying there are antigens in ones nostrils?
Yes the rapid antigen tests are meant to detect the nucleocapsid from SARS Covid 2 which is done in the nasal passage. Essentially detecting if you have pieces of virus (antigens) that would cause an immune response in your nasal cavity… positive tests are most accurate in a symptomatic patient, however the rapid tests tend to have a high false negative rate which is why medical offices usually follow up a negative rapid test with a PCR test in suspect cases.
You might be confused with antibody testing which is detected through the blood, however antibodies do circulate through the blood and specific antigens from viruses bind to them.