What parents need to know about COVID-19 rapid testing 🧪
and hand sanitizer for her three kids, ages 4, 7 and 9, Toronto mom Mandy Hergott* bought some rapid antigen test kits as part of her back-to-school shopping. “It won’t replace the proper lab test but in anticipation of testing centres being less available, for my own peace of mind I wanted to have them at the ready,” says Hergott.
In contrast, the “gold standard” for COVID-19 testing is the PCR test, which detects genetic material from the SARS CoV-2 virus. That’s the test where a technician takes a sample from further into your nasal cavity using a long swab, which is then analyzed in a lab. Those results take at least 24 hours. Each brand will be slightly different, but generally speaking the process is fairly straightforward. You add drops of a liquid called a buffer to a tube .
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