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No, you cannot pierce your brain with a swab test – The Conversation UK
The swab test may be uncomfortable, but it is perfectly safe.
People who have had the COVID swab test say that it feels like their brain is being pierced by an oversized cotton bud. Recent lurid headlines will not put people at ease. Womans nose starts leaking brain and spinal fluid after she took a Covid swab test, said the Daily Star. Coronavirus swab test went so far up a womans nose it caused her brain to leak, was the Mirrors headline.
But where did this story come from and should we give it any credence? The newspaper reports are based on a case stu…
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