SARS-COV-2 nucleic acid can be detected from throat swabs (nasopharyngeal swabs are recommended for children), sputum, lower respiratory tract secretions, stool, urine, tears, or blood samples, by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR); or by viral gene sequencing [3]. ...
Measuring a patient's body temperature using a thermometer or thermal scanner has been vastly used as one of the detection techniques for monitoring the infection of COVID-19 in public places such as airports, schools, and universities. This method can only detect elevated skin temperatures, which...
Schools here have what is called “Senior Project” that has to been turned in and presented with a passing grade in order to graduate. Monday was presentation day. BC asked me if she could leave school early so she could get her presentation together for that evening. She is an A/B st...
Higher viral loads have been recorded in the nose than the in throat, with similar viral loads seen in asymptomatic and symptomatic patients [27]. 2.4. Symptoms and Impact Coronaviruses generally are found to cause acute and chronic respiratory, enteric, and central nervous system diseases in ...
There, the authors first obtained the spectrogram from the time-varying audio signal, and the cough sound was found to generate higher energy over a wide frequency range compared to other sounds such as throat clearing, speech, and noise. Based on the distinct pattern, the spectrogram of the ...