Jan 23 - China Uses Anal Tests To Detect Omicron As COVID Variant Spreads Before Olympics

Chinese health authorities are ordering the use of controversial but more precise anal swabs to detect COVID-19 for a third year running as an Omicron cluster in Beijing grew to three people as of Wednesday.

After the city detected its first case of the highly transmittable variant on Saturday, The Beijing News said at least 27 anal tests had been administered in the apartment complex where the infected woman lives. Health workers also conducted extensive environmental swabs to trace the source of the transmission, the newspaper reported.

China has deployed anal swabs in major cities including Beijing and Shanghai since 2020. In the capital, the method was used in combination with antibody tests as well as throat and nasal swabs to screen millions last winter. While the approach isn't considered practical for tracking larger clusters—an established method known as "pooling" is preferred—anal swabs are thought to be more accurate, especially in COVID hotspots.

In a report that aired this time in 2021, infectious disease expert Dr. Li Tongzeng, with Beijing You'an Hospital, told China's state broadcaster CCTV that anal swabs were effective at detecting infections in asymptomatic cases or in individuals with mild symptoms. Both groups tend to recover from the illness more quickly, he said. "It's possible that there will be no trace of the virus in their throat after three to five days," he added.

What we've found is that in some infected patients, the coronavirus survives for a longer period of time in their digestive tract or excrement than in their respiratory tract," Li said at the time. The method, while uncomfortable, could increase the rate of detectability and lower the chances of a missed diagnosis, he said.

American and Japanese diplomats were subjected to the anal tests in early 2021, resulting in considerable distress and some protest. In China, however, the method may be key to maintaining its zero-tolerance approach to the virus.

In December, a research paper published in the Chinese Journal of Experimental and Clinical Virology by Dr. Cai Kanru et al. backed the practice and recommended it be widely adopted.

Cai and seven other specialists at Shenzhen Third People's Hospital in China's southern Guangdong province compared 46 samples from 31 symptomatic patients. Their study showed nasal swabs produced diminishing effectiveness at detecting the coronavirus throughout the course of an infection.

In nucleic acid tests administered 16 days or more into a COVID infection, those who tested positive after an anal swab also returned positive after a nasal swab less than one-third of the time—28.6 percent of patients.

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china always probing a*ses

No chink is touching my buttocks or anus. fu*k China

BuiltForThis said

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I’m a stop the spread guy ;)

Ask me how

Zeta variant coming up next

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@ keep going back for his safety

How much do competitors make?

foshoVoodoo said

china always probing a*ses

Wait I never thought about that... Is that why aliens always do butt probes to find out if the abductee was infectious

@ has been testing himself 3 times a day since he discovered these

Yeah I’ll take the less accurate nose swab oh you ain’t got those? This cough might just be my allergies then.

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What the hell is going on with people? It seems like the media has nothing else to talk about but covid/omicron and is just manipulating so many with this flu, because that's just what it is a f*cking flu! But as soon as they come up with a name for it people just tend to go crazy about it.