Talk:Nasopharyngeal swab

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Nasopharyngeal swab

I don't know whether it's appropriate to add to the article that some people cannot be tested this way. For example I am prone to catastrophic nose bleeds if anything is shoved up my nose. As a hospital bed patient a notice forbidding this procedure was placed on the wall above my bed. I imagine that other testing techniques that for example access the lungs, come with their own dangers. The article seems to imply that all possible tests are completely benign. 2A00:23C5:C29C:3901:49AD:6307:56CE:4257 (talk) 22:02, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]