nasopharynx

They typically do one swab of the nasopharynx (upper back of the throat, up above the soft palate).

Acetium (a Finnish product) also claims to lower acetaldehyde, but that might be a localized effect (mouth/nasopharynx + GI tract).

The shock wave from each trigger pull made my nasopharynx hurt.

Both times I felt sick, I tested myself daily, and I was negative every time I swabbed my nostrils and nasopharynx.

Circumferential pharyngeal wall collapse in the Nasopharynx and Oropharynx.

If anterior naries (front of nose) swabs or side of mouth swabs are done, rather than the true posterior nasopharynx or oropharangeal swabs, the sensitivity drops dramatically.

An infection that super aggressively reproduces but due to antibodies fails to gain a foothold beyond the nasopharynx in vaccinated people doing little damage to the host but spreading effectively to both vaccinated individuals who largely have the above experience and unvaccinated who get miserably sick and sometimes drown in their own mucus could be very fit in evolutionary terms in a mostly vaccinated population.

Less severe response to it, not "less chance of getting it." And then just two lines later: > Recent evidence suggests that compared to adults, children likely have similar viral loads in their nasopharynx,7 similar secondary infections rates, and can spread the virus to others I don't know how you arrived at your opinion here.

> "It may be that we will show that if the level of virus in your nasopharynx because you're vaccinated is so low that you don't have to worry about transmitting, that's going to be a game changer for what a vaccinated person can or cannot do," Fauci said.