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The tens of thousands of people who self-tested for COVID-19 in Stockholm may have received the wrong answer.
Now the testing method in the region is changing.
Anyone who wants to get tested for covid-19 in the Stockholm region and is not hospitalized can choose to go to a self-service station or receive a test at their doorstep.
In both cases, it is the patient himself who performs the test. The current method involves the patient scraping the posterior pharyngeal wall with a swab that is inserted through the mouth and then vigorously shaken in a tube of fluid.
But this is not the safest method, according to the Swedish Public Health Agency, which now recommends tests that take samples from the nose and throat, as well as saliva.
According to the Swedish Public Health Agency, the Stockholm region is the only region not yet testing according to the safest method. Now you also have to change the sampling here.
– In the Stockholm region, preparations are already underway to move to the recommended sampling method where throat / nose / saliva is combined, writes Marcus Hagström in the press department of Karolinska University Hospital.
Most of the tests in Stockholm, three-quarters, consist of self-sampling.
“Things that happen”
However, state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell does not believe there is a great risk that the above tests are incorrect.
-It could be someone single where you have not found anything but who had very little. But that’s what happens with all samples, he tells SVT.
In the Stockholm region, tens of thousands of people are tested each week for ongoing covid-19. The vast majority of tests, three-quarters, are carried out by self-sampling.
It is not clear what proportion of the test results were false.
Photo: Stina Stjernkvist / TT
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