A pair of booths now offer an oral alternative to the standard nasal swab.
By
Benjamin Cassidy
12/11/2020 at 10:42am
Seattle now has kiosks like this one.
Receiving a Covid-19 test is rarely a pleasant experience. As my colleague Stefan Milne wrote in June, the standard nasal swab usually goes so deep it can feel like it s jabbing your brain. It s not always that way; while I ve had one test of the deep-prod variety, I also had another in which the swab merely took a merry-go-round-like trip around the center of my nostril. Not bad at all.
There s another way around the brain tickle. Seattle is the latest city to open oral Covid-19 testing sites. Free of charge and sans insurance, people can walk up to kiosks in the Central District (east of the Garfield Community Center) or Northgate (south of the Northgate Community Center), swab the inside of their own mouths, and return their samples to workers inside these booth. After installing the kiosks late las
Pioneer Squareâs Arundel Books is affiliated with the small press Chatwin Books. Currently, Arundel sits in a proper brick building and abounds with new, used, and rare books, many of which you need to get on a ladder to reach. In January, it moves to a new location.
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This shop is a Pioneer Square mainstay for new and used books. As of January 31, 2021, though, it will move to a new spot on University Way NE. In the interim, the Pioneer Square location is open, or you can order by email at [email protected].
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