On September 27, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's new Coronavirus Infectious Diseases Promotion Headquarters launched a clerical contact "Handling of medical antigen test kits in pharmacies under the fashion of a new colon virus infection" (hereinafter, clerical contact).He acknowledged to sell a medical antigen test kit that has obtained the approval of the law at a "special" pharmacy.
The first problem of this pharmacy sales system is that the tests are not well understood.
According to the clerical contact on September 27, "if the symptoms have a medical institution," the symptoms are excluded from the use of the test kit.On the other hand, it is said that it is not recommended for asymptomatic people, and as noticeable.Types other than the symptoms and asymptoms are empty sets in ordinary Japanese.
The government summarizes the "New Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) Pathogen testing guidelines 4.In the "1st edition", there is no category other than the symptoms and asymptoms of what kind of subjects to use various tests for.The clerical contact shows the "self -check" for "if you are worried about your physical condition, etc.", but it is not clear how the state of "physical condition" is different from the symptoms or asymptomatic status.
If you imagine the actual scene, the buyer of the kit does not want to see a medical institution for some reason even if you have symptoms, or asymptomatic, but "before participating in the event" or "people in crowded people."This test will often be used for "relief" in the case of "after".
Even if the clerical contact says that the subject of the inspection is vaguely written, and in the text, "both the symptoms and the asymptomatic person are not the target", it is virtually "judge by yourself."I wonder if that is the case.
Next, there is a problem with the nasal specimen used for testing an antigen test kit.This kit is to use a symbol of nasal cavity, not nasopharyngeal, but in the first place, an antigenodist test using a nasal cavity sample is not performed in the first place.
According to the guidelines for the pathogen test mentioned above, antigen modest tests are not allowed even for nasal cavity, saliva, or nasopharyngeal specimens for aspects in the first place.Furthermore, even for PCR tests and antigen quantity tests, which have better test accuracy than antigen qualitative tests, only nasopharynx and saliva are observed for asymptomaticians, and no nasal specimens are observed.
As most of the actual usage situations are assumed to be asymptomatic, a nasal specimen in a medical institution, which is performed by medical professionals, has not been allowed to be recognized as a PCR test or antigen quantity test.It cannot be reasonably explained to be recognized by the inferior test of antigen qualitative tests performed by non -medical people.