In a counterintuitive twist, experts are warning of a probable—and alarming—increase in cases of sexually transmitted infections in the U.S.
in Washington, D.C., was used to walk-in waiting rooms packed with people seeking both routine and urgent tests. But amid the pandemic, the center stopped its walk-in policy, Cary says. According to data provided by Whitman-Walker, the center experienced a cumulative 43 percent decrease in chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis testing in 2020 compared to 2019.
that 51 percent of respondents lacked gonorrhea and chlamydia tests in April 2020. The CDC collected additional survey responses through January 2021, by which time 38 percent said they didn’t have enough tests.COVID-19 tests use many of the same materials as STI tests, says Van Der Pol. “The swabs that we use for women to self-collect their own specimens—those are the exact same swabs that are being used for nasal testing” for COVID-19, she says.
However, many experts worry the damage has already been done. Pinto’s study found that it’s likely more than 150,000 STI cases were missed through July 2020 alone. But because of the pandemic’s effects, true increases are tough to identify: Are increased numbers a catch-up of sorts—the result of running a backlog of tests that would have, under normal circumstances, been processed in 2020? Or do these increases represent true prevalence—an uptick in actual disease spread?
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