China rolls out anal swab coronavirus test, saying it's more accurate than throat method
Source: Washington Post
SEOUL Months-long lockdowns. Entire city populations herded through the streets for mandatory testing. The people of China could be forgiven for thinking they had seen it all during the coronavirus pandemic.
But now they face a new indignity: the addition of anal swabs yes, you read that right to the testing regimen for those in quarantine.
Chinese state media outlets introduced the new protocol in recent days, prompting widespread discussion and some outrage. Some Chinese doctors say the science is there. Recovering patients, they say, have continued to test positive through samples from the lower digestive tract days after nasal and throat swabs came back negative.
Yet for many, it seemed a step too far in government intrusions after a year and counting of a dignity-eroding pandemic.
Everyone involved will be so embarrassed, one user in Guangdong province said Wednesday on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform. In a Weibo poll, 80 percent of respondents said they could not accept the invasive method.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/anal-swab-china-coronavirus/2021/01/27/cc284f56-6054-11eb-a177-7765f29a9524_story.html
orangecrush
(19,581 posts)Pandemic news couldn't get any more depressing.
Virus - "Hey, they're looking for us! Where's a good place to hide?"
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)Yeap....
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)Edited to add: you didnt disappoint!
bottomofthehill
(8,335 posts)turtleblossom
(504 posts)Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)G/I tract has many ACE2 receptor cells.
Avoid false positive, or negative, by swabbing the 'intake'.
If you are shitting it out, ya got it.
Sorry.
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)he said it was mostly his GI tract and breathing.
Marcuse
(7,490 posts)Every time I did one I had to do a throat swab afterwards I was so scared the nurse would forget to use a new swab, one Weibo user joked.
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LeftInTX
(25,401 posts)RockRaven
(14,974 posts)The confluence of communist government, covid, butts...
yaesu
(8,020 posts)turtleblossom
(504 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,554 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)it will be clothed? Nope.
bringthePaine
(1,729 posts)orangecrush
(19,581 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,144 posts)there's a logical reason for this, there are most ace2 receptions (thanks for the knowledge) there. I wonder if this would work on maybe a typical stool sample one takes to the doctor occasionally? If they didn't develop something like using a stool sample, how did they imagine handling (in China) 100s of millions of people mooning their doctors in giving samples?
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)orangecrush
(19,581 posts)The shitty end of the stick.
OneBlueSky
(18,536 posts)Bayard
(22,105 posts)Not going there. I had enough trouble with someone sticking a swab up my nose.
I will not be the butt of any jokes.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Its an extra long Qtip. They still go in through the nose.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Is it the size of a rectal thermometer, or a rolling pin?
NBachers
(17,125 posts)I just mailed in one of those poop sample tests - maybe that would be the way to go.
BadgerKid
(4,553 posts)Historic NY
(37,451 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)Last week, a Beijing city official said that anal swabs were taken from more than 1,000 teachers, staffers and students at a primary school in the city after an infection had been found there. Nose and throat swabs and serum samples were also collected for testing.
Additional tests using anal swabs can pick up infections that other tests miss, as virus traces in faecal samples or anal swabs could remain detectable for a longer time than in samples taken from upper respiratory tract, Dr Li Tongzeng, a respiratory and infectious disease specialist in Beijing city, told state TV last week.
Users of Chinas Weibo, its Twitter-like social media platform, reacted to the method with a mix of mirth and horror.
Low harm, but extreme humiliation, another said, using a laughing emoticon.
Ive done two anal swabs, every time I did one I had to do a throat swab afterwards I was so scared the nurse would forget to use a new swab, one Weibo user joked.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/28/chinese-cities-using-anal-swabs-to-screen-covid-infections
Sancho
(9,070 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)AllTooEasy
(1,260 posts)Worst Political Decision Ever!
LudwigPastorius
(9,156 posts)"If you thought the Obama Death Panels were tough, wait'll you get a load of the Biden Mandatory Anal Probes!"
BigBearJohn
(11,410 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)trusty elf
(7,394 posts)IronLionZion
(45,463 posts)truth is stranger than memes
Denvermosaic
(120 posts)Botany
(70,523 posts)Do a # 2 and then drop some toilet paper into a test kit and see if your are positive or negative.
Nitram
(22,822 posts)A Led Zeppelin?
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Not until after they buy you dinner, or at least a couple of drinks. And no Rohypnol!