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Goodbye, brain scrapers. COVID-19 tests now use gentler nose swabs

  • Written by Craig Lockwood, Associate Professor Implementation Science, JBI, University of Adelaide
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Early COVID-19 images of swabbing from Wuhan, China, looked more like an Ebola news story — health-care workers fully encased in personal protective equipment (PPE), inserting swabs so deeply that brain injury seemed imminent.

As COVID-19 (and testing) spread around the world, there were reports of “brain scraping”,...

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