Good News. The Latest COVID-19 Tests Work Without ‘Tickling Your Brain’ – ScienceAlert

Early COVID-19 images of swabbing from Wuhan, China, looked more like an Ebola news story – health-care workers fully encased in personal protective equipment (PPE), inserting swabs so deeply that brain injury seemed imminent.
As COVID-19 (and testing) spread around the world, there were reports of “brain scraping”, “brain stabbing” or “brain tickling” swabs. Perhaps this was your experience early in the pandemic. Perhaps these stories have put you off getting tested so far.
But if you go to a…

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