Cover photo of Carbon’s prototype COVID-19 test swabs. All but one of the designs passed patient testing at Stanford and Beth Israel hospitals; Carbon eventually chose a hybrid of the two on the ...

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The country needs tens of millions of nasal swabs if it’s going to test enough people for COVID-19 to safely reopen the economy, but swabs are in short supply. A consortium of academics, medical ...

Health When these Boston doctors ran out of virus-testing swabs, they mobilized an army of 3-D printers In 22 days, engineers and manufacturers came up with four new designs ...

The risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection is increased among adults with allergic rhinitis using nasal corticosteroids but not among children.

The specialized swabs required for coronavirus tests are quite different from your standard Q-tips. And U.S. hospitals are running out of them, creating another delay in efforts to expand testing.

President Donald Trump will use the Defense Production Act to compel an unnamed company to produce 20 million more coronavirus testing swabs every month — weeks after labs and public health ...