New COVID-19 Nasal Swabs being used at Mayo Clinic

These are now the primary swabs doctors are using to test for COVID-19.

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New on daybreak.

Doctors at mayo clinic are rolling out a new way to test patients for covid?

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Instead of the traditional nasal swab... kimt news 3's madelyne watkins explain their new creation.

She joins us live now.

Good morning, madelyne./// tyler.

If you think back to the beginning of the pandemic... there was a massive shortage of face masks and gloves.

So doctors here at mayo clinic created 3?

"*d printed face shields.

And they're doing the same thing now with nasal swab tests because of that exact reason.

Here's video of what the swab looks like and i'm learning there are a few different benefits to this.

So it's a mid?

"* turbinate swab that was designed and 3?

"* d printed at mayo clinic.

Doctor paul jannetto tells me this new swab is less invasive than the traditional one... meaning it doesn't have to go all the way up the nasal cavity.

The other benefit is patients are able to perform this test on themselves right from home ?

"*- which can help free up nursing staff within the hospitals.

The 3?

"*d printed nasal swab ws developed and implemented in just four months.

Doctor jannetto says that goes to show how advance the medical industry is and the impacts the pandemic has made.

"one thing this pandemic has taught us is the importance of teamwork and resiliency and those two concepts can really get us through a crisis.

At mayo clinic, we've seen those two things really come together where all different groups of health care workers and physicians and providers come together to come up with an idea, execute and have a developed device to be used to help test patients."

Mayo clinic did a validation study where doctors tested 318 patients with both the traditional nasal swab and the 3?

"*d printed nasal swab and found the results are accurate and it is now an fda registered device.

Live in rochester.

Madelyne watkins kimt news 3.

Thank you madelyne.

Doctors at mayo clinic in rochester are now using the 3?

"*d printed nasal swab as their primary swab when testing