RE: NCYT29 Jun 2021 09:19
Fun-time-swing : indeed the home test performance is not great, but remains normal, because such are the pitfalls of working with oral fluids (i.e. saliva). There's a reason why most LFTs use nasal sampling instead... including AVCT.
More info is needed on that test. But if NCYT is able to maintain consistent detection levels with saliva samples, that's actually a pretty big achievement - scientifically and commercially.
Joe Public doesn't want to mess with his nose, and neither do scientists want him to, since it can lead to disastrous results (cf. Innova's dramatically lower accuracy with self-testing). Spitting is where it's at for the masses.