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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 26088063" data-attributes="member: 562115">It's been long known that the stool tests may be more effective than respiratory tests in identifying COVID-19 infections in children due to a higher viral load in their stool than adults. The Chinese now claim that when a throat swab results in a negative, the anal swab tests positive and is more reliable. Also COVID-19 survives longer in the anus or faeces compared to the upper body tracts.In fact, there was a paper published in August last year indicating that the anal swabs are the potentially optimal specimen for Covid-19 detection to evaluate the hospital discharge of Covid-19 patients. Cured patients only showed positive on the anal swabs.It seems since last week they are doing it in Beijing...</blockquote>

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