China rolls out anal swab coronavirus test, saying it’s more accurate than throat method

[vi-va]

Lol. In China?

No, in US. In silicon valley a lot Indians bring their inhuman backward CASTE SYSTEM into US IT giant company.

 

[Jackdaws]

No, in US. In silicon valley a lot Indians bring their inhuman backward CASTE SYSTEM into US IT giant company.

Hahaha. No they don't. There may be a few wayward cases here and there that have been amplified by the Communist media.

 

[KurtisBrian]

This will be very suitable for India, IF IF IF the news is true.

trust such an article and thought to come from Washington, USA and India.

 

[313ghazi]

Anal swabs? Rather take my chances with Corona.

 

[SuperStar20]

Looks like news is real, any cute member gone through the testing

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[Shehr Abbasi]

This news is in fact true, as it has been reported by CCTV (which stands for Closed-circuit television, I mean China Central Television which is the most popular News in China).

Also, only 2 chinese members showed up to respond here, surprisingly low figure. I would like someone to respond about CCTV, I don't know much about it.

Here is a video of the trial anal swab coronavirus test. Relax!!! It's performed on a dummy in the video (completely SFW and clean).

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Looks like news is real, any cute member gone through the testing

Judging the amount Chinese butthurt on Indian threads, that would be all of them

 

[CatSultan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/anal-swab-china-coronavirus/2021/01/27/cc284f56-6054-11eb-a177-7765f29a9524_story.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_main

China rolls out anal swab coronavirus test, saying it’s more accurate than throat method

By
Eva Dou
Jan. 27, 2021 at 2:57 p.m. GMT+5:30

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.

Even Chinese doctors who support the new tests said the method’s inconvenience meant it made sense for use only in select groups, such as at quarantine centers.

“If we add anal swab testing, it can raise our rate of identifying infected patients,” Li Tongzeng, an infectious-disease specialist at Beijing You’an Hospital, said on state-run broadcaster CCTV on Sunday. “But of course, considering that collecting anal swabs is not as convenient as throat swabs, at the moment only key groups such as those in quarantine receive both.”
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The new protocol comes just over a year after the virus began spreading rapidly in the country. Chinese officials are worried about the approach of Lunar New Year next month, often called the world’s largest annual migration. Some 3 billion trips are made over the holiday during a non-pandemic year, which means even a single silent coronavirus case could rapidly leapfrog across the nation.

China is seeking to vaccinate 50 million people before the holiday, but that’s less than 4 percent of its population, far too low a rate to prevent mass transmission.

Officials have tightened restrictions in recent weeks, with tens of millions of people returned to lockdown in areas with isolated outbreaks. As before, travelers arriving from overseas go straight into two weeks of hotel quarantine — but now a week of home quarantine has been added, as well as a week of daily reports to health officials.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, China has been willing to take draconian measures to halt the spread of the coronavirus, even at enormous inconvenience to its population. In the early days of lockdowns, health officials sometimes sealed apartment buildings to keep people from leaving. Millions were rounded up for overnight flash-testing drives, with people forming lines in the streets in darkness.

After an outbreak at Shanghai’s international airport in November, officials locked thousands of employees inside for testing, prompting a terrifying stampede.

Now, with infections stubbornly continuing to emerge ahead of the holiday, the government has approved an expanded use of anal swab testing.

China tried the testing procedure in small groups last year, with the results circulated in research journals. A group of Chinese researchers published a study in the Future Microbiology journal in August reporting that for some recovering coronavirus patients, anal swab samples still tested positive after they had tested negative through throat swabs.
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“Intriguingly, SARS-CoV-2 detection was positive in the anal swab of two patients and negative in throat swab and sputum samples,” they wrote. “We propose anal swabs as the potentially optimal specimen for SARS-CoV-2 detection for evaluation of hospital discharge of covid-19 patients.”

As for how the test is conducted, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention published instructions last March. It said that a stool sample should be taken from patients, and if that is not possible, to do an anal swab by inserting a cotton-tipped stick three to five centimeters (one to two inches) into the rectum.

In recent days, the state-run tabloid Global Times noted that the procedure was controversial, with some doctors saying nasal and throat swabs were more effective because coronavirus is a respiratory infection.

“There have been cases concerning the coronavirus testing positive in a patient’s excrement, but no evidence has suggested it had been transmitted through one’s digestive system,” the Global Times cited Yang Zhanqiu, a pathologist at Wuhan University, as saying.

Chinese social media was awash with comments of disbelief and concern about the new test procedure.

“It’s difficult for the nurses,” said one person on Weibo.

“We must really try hard to avoid catching coronavirus!!” said another.

Have fun getting violated by a Q tip

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

slum is civilized. Just learnt.

Good for 196 million Chinese

I bet India has 500 millions infections or more.

India has over 20 million Covid deaths so no surprises

 

[Shehr Abbasi]

No, in US. In silicon valley a lot Indians bring their inhuman backward CASTE SYSTEM into US IT giant company.

What does the backward caste system have to do with a filthy anal swab coronavirus test?

 

[vi-va]

What does the backward caste system have to do with a filthy anal swab coronavirus test?

I am not the one who bring up unrelated off topic stuff into this thread.
anal swab is a very normal, professional medial method, someone else want to link this little things to something related to democracy, civilization, and so on.

Lol. Is that the from the latest edition of Gobar Times? Hahaha. Because in democratic civilized world China is a laughing stock in all matters and squarely blamed for the virus.

 

[Shehr Abbasi]

I am not the one who bring up unrelated off topic stuff into this thread.
anal swab is a very normal, professional medial method, someone else want to link this little things to something related to democracy, civilization, and so on.

Anal swab coronavirus test is neither normal, professional, or ethical.

If it is, why don't you offer yourself as a volunteer and go to china to do it.

 

[vi-va]

Anal swab coronavirus test is neither normal, professional, or ethical.

If it is, why don't you offer yourself as a volunteer and go to china to do it.

Because China has zero to none new cases, which means throat test is OK to contain virus spreading in China.

Medical method is a method, as long as it bring value to human being, it's neutral.

It's up to human being to decide whether adopt this method or not.

 

[Shehr Abbasi]

Because China has zero to none new cases, which means throat test is OK to contain virus spreading in China.

Medical method is a method, as long as it bring value to human being, it's neutral.

It's up to human being to decide whether adopt this method or not.

Anal swab coronavirus test is neither normal, professional, or ethical.

No sane human would do it, even you admit you wouldn't do it. China is doing a blunder of administering this "test".

 

[FuturePAF]

A Chinese lab should develop a test for the stool sample that is not invasive, if they hope for mass adoption. Some thing like the Raku-Ryu Cup with a test built in.