Interesting preprint of a Yale study comparing saliva swabs with the golden standard. Looks promising to speed up sampling and make it less intrusive.

(Via @awyllie13 ) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20067835v1#disqus_thread
Saliva is more sensitive for SARS-CoV-2 detection in COVID-19 patients than nasopharyngeal swabs

Rapid and accurate SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing is essential for controlling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The current gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis is real-time RT-PCR detection of SARS-C...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20067835v1#disqus_thread
Key findings in this thread by one of the authors. And explained clearly if I may add. Nice read. https://twitter.com/awyllie13/status/1252996331984916480?s=19
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