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"They are not simple throat swabs, but instead require cells from hard-to-reach parts of the respiratory tract.

The simplest test, a nasopharyngeal swab, is not surgery, but it comes close, said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Its an aggressive medical procedure.

The alternative requires pumping saline solution deep into the lungs.

You could not do it on healthy people by the thousands, or just go from cabin to cabin doing it, Dr. Schaffner said.

Both procedures are risky for the medical personnel doing them, because they can send the patient into a retching or coughing fit, spewing out virus."

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