Anal COVID-19 swabs why is China doing them?
After independent complaints out of the United States and from Japanese officials, China s CDC has confirmed that at some airports passengers are being tested for COVID-19 through the use of anal swabs. These probes are also being used on local populations. On March 3 a foreign ministry spokesperson told Reuters that the decision to use these virus prevention and control measures was based on science.
DW spoke with Wendy Szymczak, who researched the utility of stool PCR for detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA and implemented diagnostic testing for COVID-19 at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York.
Virtue signal received, five by five.
As Campus Reform reported in November, English Department faculty members voted to change the school’s name during their first faculty meeting of the fall semester. Professor Kate McCullough said that the rebranding would help to avoid the “conflation of English as a language and English as a nationality.”
Unlike, say, Chinese or German or damn near any other language.
Those don’t count, however, because as Insanity Wrap understands it, Chinese and Germans never committed any historical atrocities the way English speakers did when they authored the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights.
After localized COVID-19 outbreaks in parts of China, including the capital city Beijing, authorities there have started using anal swabs to test for the virus instead of the usual nose and throat swabs. The reason for the switch? Anal swabs might be better at detecting the virus, some experts believe.
According to state broadcaster
CCTV, anal swab testing has been conducted mainly on people living in areas with confirmed COVID cases and those who have been quarantined. Passengers arriving in Beijing and a group of more than 1,000 school children and teachers who were thought to have been exposed to the virus are among the people who ve undergone anal swabbing, according to