Guess essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; Chinese scientists believe you are more likely to receive an accurate Covid-19 test result if they shove that fuzzy swab thing up your butt, rather than up your nose.
Beijing tests for COVID-19 using anal swabs, where virus may survive longer: experts
By Fan Anqi and Deng Xiaoci
Published: Jan 23, 2021 03:16 PMBeijing reported a 9-year-old boy tested positive for COVID-19 last week, and his school conducted a variety of tests including serum antibody tests, nasal, throat, and even anal swabs for all its staff and students, prompting many to wonder if anal swabs could be more accurate in detecting the virus than other measures.
Li Tongzeng, a deputy director in charge of infectious disease at Beijing You’an Hospital, said that studies have shown that the coronavirus survives longer in the anus or excrement than those taken from upper body tracts, and for some silent carriers the virus may be present in their throats for 3 to 5 days, allowing some tests to provide false negative results.
Taking an anal swab could increase accuracy in key groups, Li noted during an interview with the China Central Television. However, given that the method is not as convenient as throat swabs, it will only be applied to key groups at quarantine centers.
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Read more: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1213668.shtml
Effluent testing is regularly used in Australia to try to identify community transmission hotspots, so it seems plausible that the Chinese researchers are right about anal swabs being more likely to detect Covid-19 infection.
I guess the question is, how badly do you want to know whether you actually have Covid?
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Does this mean the virus can transferred by farts ?
Shhh, you’ll give them ideas! We might need both face masks and <ahem> plugs of some kind…
I always suspected the Chinese were space aliens.
No. Hell no.
IMHO, the CCP, having been largely responsible for the initial worldwide spread of COVID-19—for now overlooking its likely responsibility for the creation of this virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratories—should certainly be “in the know” about all aspects of this virus.
Erm you are, of course, completely aware that your title picture is wrong for the rest of the article, aren’t you? Hint – wrong place entirely!
Prb’ly because this is presumably a family site.
I’m wondering if a picture of a med tech holding up a swab with a smile on his face might have been enough!
I considered a cartoon… 🙂
https://youtu.be/WnQV8E8Ja5E
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
But the so called “test” does NOT detect a virus — it detects genetic material ASSOCIATED WITH a virus that might also be associated with something else. And even if it is associated with the SARS-CoV-2 alleged virus, the so called “test” cannot tell you whether it is active of “dead”.
Anal probes, thus, are asinine.
Well, it’s obvious from the comments what a joke this is for real humans.
I thought China had already effectively done this to us as part of the process