Clinical application of an intelligent oropharyngeal swab robot: implication for the COVID-19 pandemic

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by infection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is transmitted through respiratory droplets and close contact [1–4]. To diagnose COVID-19, oropharyngeal swab (OP swab) sampling is widely used for viral nucleic acid detection [3]. However, healthcare workers who perform OP swab are at high risk of infection due to aerosol…

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