Claim: "Ever wonder why they have to stick a Q-tip through your nose to the back of your head to swab a sample of covid but a droplet of saliva will infect a whole village at one time"
Fact-check: Primary COVID-19 transmission is by close contact with infected people; nasopharyngeal swab-based testing provides the highest diagnostic accuracy - Science Feedback
Verdict: misleading
Organisation: Science Feedback
Author: Iria Carballo-Carbajal
Date published: 2020-07-23T09:00:56