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Omicron survives longer on plastic, skin than prior variants; nose swabbing found best for rapid tests - Reuters

Omicron survives longer on plastic, skin than prior variants; nose swabbing found best for rapid tests - Reuters

Omicron survives longer on plastic, skin than prior variants; nose swabbing found best for rapid tests - Reuters
Jan 24, 2022 58 secs

The Omicron variant can survive longer than earlier versions of the coronavirus on plastic surfaces and human skin, Japanese researchers found in laboratory tests.

Users of rapid antigen tests to detect COVID-19 should swab their nostrils as directed by the manufacturer and not swab the throat or cheek instead, new research shows.

Earlier this month, with Omicron accounting for nearly all coronavirus infections in San Francisco, researchers there performed both PCR and Abbott Laboratories' (ABT.N) BinaxNOW rapid antigen test on 731 people requesting COVID-19 tests.

Even the highly vulnerable residents of long-term care facilities are generally experiencing less severe disease from Omicron than from earlier versions of the coronavirus, according to new data.

Researchers in England compared hospitalization rates in residents of 333 facilities before and after the Omicron variant became dominant.

After accounting for other risk factors, the odds of hospitalization were 50% lower for infected patients in the Omicron period, the researchers reported on Sunday on medRxiv ahead of peer review.

The researchers have also seen fewer deaths from COVID-19 in the Omicron period, although they said it was too soon to draw firm conclusions about the variant's effect of mortality

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