The health department of Shijiazhuang City responded to "the penguin becomes a penguin in seconds after the anal swab nucleic acid test": rumors!
Recently, a video that “the citizens of Shijiazhuang changed into a penguin in seconds after an anal swab nucleic acid test, and their walking posture turned into a foreign character” was widely spread on major online platforms.
In response, experts from the Shijiazhuang City Health Department and the city’s new crown pneumonia treatment team officially responded that the news was a rumor.
Wang Haibin, a member of the Shijiazhuang New Coronary Pneumonia Treatment Expert Group and Chief Physician of Shijiazhuang Fifth Hospital, said that since the outbreak of the epidemic in Shijiazhuang in 2021, all the specimens collected in communities have been oropharyngeal or nasopharyngeal swabs, and anal swabs have never been collected in all communities. .
Anal swab specimens were only collected from patients with new coronary pneumonia who were hospitalized with diarrhea, and there was no obvious discomfort after the anal swab was collected.
Experts said that when screening for new coronary pneumonia in people related to the epidemic, oropharyngeal swab nucleic acid testing is mainly used because it is convenient and fast and suitable for large-scale screening.
Considering that the collection of anal swabs is not as convenient as throat swabs, currently only throat swabs and anal swabs are collected from key populations.
(Reporter Qin Jing)