A new study suggests that school aged children can swab their own samples for COVID-19 testing, according to clinical researchers from Atlanta’s Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Before this study, the FDA imposed regulations that prevented children younger than age 14 years from self-swabbing for COVID-19. New data led researchers to suggest updating this policy …
Instructions pour le prélèvement d'écouvillons nasaux moyens pour la COVID-19 1. Demandez au patient d’incliner la tête en arrière 70 degrés. 2. Utiliser des gants et garder l'embout stérile, retirer l'écouvillon. 3. En tournant, insérez l'écouvillon d'un pouce ou moins jusqu'à ce qu'une résistance soit rencontrée au niveau des cornets. 4. Faites pivoter l'écouvillon 3-5 fois contre la paroi nasale et répéter dans l’autre narine …
Food couriers bring supplies to social workers at a closed residential community in Xi’an, Province du Shanxi, on Saturday. [Photo by YUAN JINGZHI/FOR CHINA DAILY] A citywide lockdown and mass COVID-19 testing in Xi’an, capital of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, have enabled the city to reduce the risk of transmission, but the local outbreak is still developing, local authorities said …