A maze of twisty little test instructions, all different

[jducoeur]

Okay, I'm curious: does it drive anyone else nuts that each form of covid antigen test works differently? They all have the same components -- nasal swab, liquid, and test strip -- but each one's instructions operate in a different order, and it makes me a little nuts trying to remember how to use one or the other.

(This message brought to you by me trying out the BinaxNOW test for the first time today, and going "Wait -- I put the liquid on the card before I swab my nose?")

Comments

[matildalucet]

I started with BinaxNow because that's what I could find. For reasons I don't remember, I then got iHealth and had to read the instructions very carefully because they were so different. I'm not confident in my swab squeezing, to be honest. I had no idea some tests now required smartphones; I'll have to pay more attention because I do not (yet) have a smartphone and don't want to borrow my husband's if I can help it.

I suspect I'll get dragged kicking and screaming into smartphone-land eventually. I'm thinking I'll wait until I get around to getting my cataract fixed because right now looking at phone screens is not fun.