He may be short in years, but not so with his COVID-19 testing record. At barely 2 years of age, the boy was born at a time of great upheaval—in January 2020 at the start of the pandemic, just days after Beijing instituted lockdown policies following a weeks-long delay in admitting the severity of the outbreak. Ever since around 3 months old, the toddler has been subjected to virus test after test. As of October, he has been through 74—once every three days in recent months—even when he spends most of his time at home and has little contact with the outside world. The procedure has been frequent enough that he no longer cries at the sight of a medical worker, but readily opens his mouth, although the throat swab apparently makes him nauseous. The toddler became a media sensation in the country after his father, a jade merchant from …