Does not comply with the guidelines, contradicts the FDA: the holes in the new recommendation for home tests
The Ministry of Health recommends performing an antigen test three days after exposure to a verified patient, but regulations require this to be done immediately after contact.
The ministry also recommended that the test be performed on the throat, but so far even in the antigen testing complexes the sample was taken from the nose, and some of the companies did not receive any other instructions.
Meirav Cohen
10/01/2022
Monday, 10 January 2022, 14:41 Updated: 15:09
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In the video: Long queues for antigen tests (Photo: Shai Makhlouf)
The new recommendations presented today (Monday) by the Ministry of Health, and designed to streamline and refine home antigen tests, raise many question marks.
As part of the recommendations, users are asked to be tested three days after exposure to a verified patient, using a first sample from the throat and then from one of the nostrils - from the same stick.
However, these recommendations run counter to the position of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and do not fully comply with the guidelines of the Department of Health itself.
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The recommendations raise question marks.
Home antigen test (Photo: Reuven Castro)
First, it should be clarified that this is only a recommendation, which does not come at the expense of the directive that requires an antigen test immediately after exposure to a corona patient - but in addition to it, for the benefit of public health.
Some problems also arise from the recommendation to sample the throat.
This directive contradicts the instructions of some manufacturers, as well as the FDA, which has explicitly advised the public not to check themselves through the throat.
As a rule, a throat test is more technically complicated, for the simple reason that it is a much larger space than the nose.
It is not at all certain that the ordinary citizen knew how to perform an examination in the throat area and understand exactly where he should take the sample.
No demo video was attached to the recommendation.
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In fact, it is also a challenge for inspectors at positions and complexes, as MDA and Ichilov themselves have so far sampled from the nose.
The recommendation comes against the background of the rapid spread of the disease in Corona in the fifth wave of the disease.
The Ministry of Health announced this morning that 21,500 Israelis have been diagnosed in the last day as positive for Corona.
This is another record since the outbreak of the plague.
The rate of positive tests also continues to rise and stands at 12.2%.
The adhesion coefficient of 1.95.
10% of the new infections are Israelis who have already recovered from Corona or been vaccinated as required.
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