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It turned out that the cotton swabs used to collect the DNA samples had all been accidentally contaminated by a woman working in the swab factory.
In the most common version of this approach, samples – nasal swabs or saliva – are sent to relatively large labs, with the goal of returning results within 24-48 hours.
Every general practitioner has nasal swabs, and could be equipped to offer testing services within a mile of where people live.
Accurately diagnosing a COVID-19 infection requires dedicated laboratory facilities to perform the genetic RT-PCR test on specimens of sputum or nasal swabs collected from suspected cases.
If this is done with anterior nares swabs (rather like a Q-tip, used to swab the front part of your nose), high frequency testing with self-sampling becomes feasible.
For starters, the US has limited capacity to produce the swabs, ventilators, face masks, and protective gear that its hospitals need.
Just as shortages of swabs and reagents have delayed coronavirus testing, so shortages of glass vials, bioreactors, or adjuvants (substances used to boost the body’s immune reaction to a vaccine) could delay efforts to deploy new treatments and vaccines.
A primary supplier of the swabs used for collecting nasopharyngeal samples, Copan, is based in Northern Italy.