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With a covid at home self swab kit do you need to get a mucus sample?
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No: Mucus sample is not needed for any Covid tests. Have a healthy diet, exercise 30 minutes/day, drink plenty of water daily so your urine is mostly colorless, have safe sex, no tobacco alcohol weed or street drugs. For nutrition: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/. Get HPV and Covid vaccines. Wish you good health!
Answered 1/18/2021
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Dx with covid 01/12/2021. I had fever and chills Dec 30th, 2020. No fever since Dec 31st. My 02 stats have been 97-98%. I still have a couch with a little clear to yellow mucus and semi formed stools. Think I may get pneumonia being 2 1/2 weeks out?
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