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
What is diastasis recti?
During pregnancy, the linea alba, the central seam of the abdomen, thins out in order to accommodate the growing uterus, says physical therapist Patricia Ladis PT, CBBA, co-author of
The Wise Woman s Guide to Your Healthiest Pregnancy and Birth. In some cases, it doesn t resolve after pregnancy, Ladis tells
Health. You can feel a bulge, doming, or may see a gap between your right and left abdominal wall muscles.
While 100% of pregnant women experience this stretching, and most of them find that it resolves without intervention (sometimes as early as 12 weeks postpartum), about 30% of women have a diastasis problem after pregnancy, Ladis says.
Whitehorse court records show that the Bakers were each charged with one count of failing to self-isolate for 14 days, and one count of failing to act in a manner consistent with their declarations upon arriving in Yukon. Each were fined $1,000 plus fees, but the charges have not yet been proven in court. In a statement to
The Post, Angela Demit, chief of the White River First Nation, said that the relatively small fines would be essentially meaningless for such rich people. I think they should be ashamed of themselves, physician Bonnie Henry, FRCPC, the Provincial Health Officer for British Columbia, said of the matter. They put a community at risk for their own benefit, and that to me is appalling.
The idea of white privilege isn t new. In the 1930s, W.E.B. Du Bois, an American sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist, described the public and psychological wage that allowed poor white people to feel superior to poor Black people. In the late 1980s, Wellesley scholar Peggy McIntosh listed 50 examples of white privilege in an essay, covering everything from how white people have access to better housing, health care, and education because of the color of their skin.
Since George Floyd s death at the hands of a white police officer in May 2020, and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic laid bare the health care disparities between white and Black Americans, white privilege has become an integral part of a wider conversation.