There is no doubt that there are shortages of some consumables; namely the swab. But every single? That is utter nonsense. The lysis reagents, extraction rea

There is no doubt that there are shortages of some consumables; namely the swab. But every single? That is utter nonsense. The lysis reagents, extraction reagents, nucleotides, enzymes, primers probes etc. are available today by the metric tonne. The swab shortage could be designed around, but they don't. No one wants to go out on a limb and glue a Q-tip to the end of a thin flexible coffee stirrer, but i bet you it would work. Something thinner in all dimensions and one-piece would be better. Are we really ready to believe that this marvel of swab technology can't be produced at scale in a minimal amount of time from scratch? That we really are screwed because they are largely made in Northern Italy?