Swabs

I clean my ears using cotton swabs.

Daniele Macchini, a physician at Humanitas Gavazzeni hospital in Bergamo, wrote : “The war has literally exploded, and the battles are uninterrupted day and night. The results of the swabs now come one after the other: positive, positive, positive. Suddenly the emergency room is collapsing.”

Researchers say the dogs are beating the swabs — detecting positive coronavirus cases that the tests have missed.

Tom regularly cleaned his ears out with cotton swabs.

They took daily swabs and blood samples throughout his stay in the hospital.

His thick fingers crackle across a large packet containing empty purple sachets labeled alcohol swabs, used syringes and a plastic sheath that a few minutes ago contained lactate solution.

The checkerboard tiling and shopworn 1950s decor in Dr. David Mushabac's dental office seem a bit old fashioned, but all the necessities are there: sky-blue swivel chair with headrest, porcelain basin, cotton swabs, and row upon row of sterile metal instruments.