Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi...
by disillusioned on Thursday April 30, 2020 @06:19AM
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There's mounting evidence that people are no longer infectious from day 8 after symptoms first appear onward. A German study tracked only a handful of patients, but tracked them very rigorously, with multiple swabs each day for 30 days and were unable to cultivate a live viral isolate after day 8 in ALL cases, even when the patient's viral load was still extremely high. (But in fairness, a bunch of viruses work this way, where patients are still sick and their viral load is high, but they cease being contagious after a few days. Eight days is still a long time, but you shouldn't have to quarantine for a month, we hope.)
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Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi...
by lbeltrame on Thursday April 30, 2020 @01:34PM
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Do you have a link to the study?
Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi...
by lbeltrame on Thursday April 30, 2020 @05:00PM
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For those who wonder, it's a preprint[1].
[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20030502v...