A joke about queuing for nucleic acid detection

A boy in Hebei took part in nucleic acid testing, and his throat swab turned into a nose swab. Why did his friends laugh at the subsequent action? The reason is that boys don't know that nucleic acid testing is a model of nasal swab, but they think it is a throat swab. When it was his turn, he took off his mask well and opened his mouth. Embarrassed, he collected a nasal swab, which made his friends laugh behind him.

This is a video shared online on February, 2022 10. The publisher probably didn't expect to attract so many people to watch. Therefore, many people have great feelings about the difference between throat swab and nose swab.

I will go back to school soon. Boys and friends made an appointment to do nucleic acid testing together, but they didn't notice the nasal swab when they stood in line, because most of the nucleic acid testing was throat swab, and the nasal swab was really uncomfortable. Many people feel uncomfortable for a long time after being sampled. It's not the first time for boys to do it, and the degree of cooperation is extremely high. When they sat down, they opened their mouths. The medical staff looked puzzled, and the friends behind them laughed stagger, and the boy's face turned red in an instant.

My friend took this video and shared it online. The result resonated with netizens. They feel funny at the same time, and they feel that the nose swab is really uncomfortable. I feel that cotton swabs are not the same, but the brain. Suddenly I felt a cotton swab stab my head. It's so uncomfortable.

Both nasal swab and throat swab are throat specimens. A nasal swab enters through the nasal cavity and samples the nasopharynx, and a pharyngeal swab enters through the oral cavity and samples the pharynx. Stimulate nasopharyngeal mucosa and oropharyngeal mucosa of the collection station respectively. According to the truth, if the nasal swab is operated properly, it will stimulate the collector less, but because there are too many collections, there is not so much time left for the medical staff to operate. Many times, a nasal swab will cause you a very uncomfortable feeling.

In addition, because the oral cavity has the function of diet, it may be affected by oral virus when collecting, which will affect the accuracy of oropharyngeal swab. Generally speaking, nasal swabs are better than samples collected from oropharynx, and the accuracy is slightly higher. At the peak of returning to work, everyone still has to cooperate with the epidemic prevention work and travel with the nucleic acid test report within the prescribed time limit.