Unsettling Graphic Will Ensure You Stay Home During Coronavirus Pandemic

LOADING ERROR LOADING A nurse practitioner has shared an unnerving medical illustration showing how a coronavirus test is administered in a bid to encourage people to stay at home amid the pandemic. Dr. Jessica Peck, a pediatric nurse practitioner and clinical professor at the Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing in Dallas, tweeted an image created by medical illustration and animation company MediVisuals showing “how far back we have to put the swab to test you for #COVID19.” “You might want to follow medical recommendations and #StayHome,” Peck wrote. pic.twitter.com/gCMqUdpsEk — Jessica Peck, DNP APRN CPNP-PC March 29, 2020 Peck was inspired to share the illustration after witnessing “significant non-adherence to recommendations and orders to stay home,” she told HuffPost. “It was never my intent,” Peck said of the testing process she described as “not a particularly painful test for most, although decidedly uncomfortable.” “The greater risk currently is not asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic people not getting tested, but rather not staying home and exposing more vulnerable sections of the population to potential for more severe illness,” she explained. If it starts conversations about staying home, I’m grateful for that.” MediVisuals president Bob Shepherd, whose company created the image, said he was “just hopeful this image will contribute in some small way to help health care providers better diagnose COVID-19 ― and perhaps help comfort the general public through awareness.” People who have been tested for the virus attested to the unpleasantness of the test procedure: I can attest to this.