Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' virus fragments: experts

Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by Leary on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:13PM (#23023635)

There have also been cases where people looked like they've recovered, tested negative, and then became ill again after 2 weeks and tested positive again.

I always suspected those were mostly due to false negatives from PCR tests. Probably only a tiny minority of people had not enough immune response for them to become reinfected.

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Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by Marsymars on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:49PM (#23024120)

Given a large enough sample size, you're also going to get people who recover, test negative due to a false negative, then get influenza two weeks later, then test positive due to dead SARS-COV-2 RNA.

And various other edge case permutations like that.

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