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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI hope whoever gives Trump his daily C-19 tests with that long swab to the back of his sinuses...
...has really shaky hands.
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I hope whoever gives Trump his daily C-19 tests with that long swab to the back of his sinuses... (Original Post)
Gidney N Cloyd
May 2020
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BigmanPigman
(51,626 posts)1. I hope it goes full lobotomy...
it would only improve his mental state.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)2. You mean he hasn't already had one?
I wonder what the explanation is for that kind of stupidity then.
BigmanPigman
(51,626 posts)4. Maybe his mother slept with her brother?
Keep the genes all in the family.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)6. I wish he would get a personalityectomy.
babylonsister
(171,081 posts)13. Me, too! nt
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)3. He probably gets the newer and much less invasive saliva test.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200427/saliva-covid-test-alternative-to-deep-nasal-swab
"By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, April 27, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus can be an unpleasant affair, with a doctor or nurse shoving a cotton swab deep into your nasal cavity to get a good sample.
But results that are just as accurate can be obtained from a more easily acquired saliva sample, a new Yale study reports.
Saliva samples taken from just inside the mouth were more accurate and consistent than deep nasal swabs taken from 44 patients and 98 health care workers, the researchers reported.
For instance, saliva samples detected the coronavirus in two health care workers without symptoms who'd previously been cleared by a deep nasal swab, the Yale researchers said.
"We found it performs as well as, and in a number of cases better, than the nasopharyngeal swab," said lead researcher Anne Wyllie, an associate research scientist at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Conn. "We have another very viable option."
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"By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, April 27, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus can be an unpleasant affair, with a doctor or nurse shoving a cotton swab deep into your nasal cavity to get a good sample.
But results that are just as accurate can be obtained from a more easily acquired saliva sample, a new Yale study reports.
Saliva samples taken from just inside the mouth were more accurate and consistent than deep nasal swabs taken from 44 patients and 98 health care workers, the researchers reported.
For instance, saliva samples detected the coronavirus in two health care workers without symptoms who'd previously been cleared by a deep nasal swab, the Yale researchers said.
"We found it performs as well as, and in a number of cases better, than the nasopharyngeal swab," said lead researcher Anne Wyllie, an associate research scientist at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Conn. "We have another very viable option."
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BigmanPigman
(51,626 posts)8. I bet he asks for two scoops as a reward after going
to the nasty, wasty doctor and not crying.
MerryBlooms
(11,771 posts)5. Following a soaked swab in disinfectant.
Should do it for about 14-21, 3xs daily.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)7. He's not getting that test any more. nt
Cirque du So-What
(25,970 posts)9. I bet a nasal swab is no big thing for him
All the substances he's snorted over the years have probably dissolved the nasal septum.
ecstatic
(32,729 posts)10. Hope the tester isn't infected. Nt
musette_sf
(10,204 posts)11. ....
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)12. You made me think.
I don't see how Trump would tolerate a proper SARS-COV-2 swabbing every week. From what I understand, the swab has to be pushed into the back of the nose and moved around forcefully.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)14. When swine flu was going around
I got a nose swab test,it was quick but awful,all I wanted to do is recoil it felt like an insect deep in my head struggling it's way to my brain.
Skittles
(153,185 posts)15. jeez I am dreading ever having to get that
it would make me sneeze uncontrollably for some time