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Recovered COVID-19 patients are testing positive for coronavirus again? - C C - Apr 13, 2020
https://www.medicaldaily.com/recovered-covid-19-patients-are-testing-positive-coronavirus-again-covid-19-451795
EXCERPT: The World Health Organization (WHO) is launching an investigation on several reports tied up to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are claims that people who had previously tested negative are now testing positive for the coronavirus while other reports allege that people who have recovered from it are getting reinfected.
[...] Recently, it was reported that South Korea had 91 patients who were believed to have recovered from COVID-19 have tested positive again. According to Jeong Eun-kyeong, the director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, explained that the virus may have reactivated in the patients rather than getting reinfected, Bloomberg reported.
[...] The trend has left health officials baffled but maintains that an epidemiological investigation is needed to determine the actual cause of why patients are testing positive after previously testing negative for the coronavirus. According to guidelines from WHO on clinical management, a clinically recovered COVID-19 patient should test negative for the virus twice with tests conducted at least 24 hours apart before they can be discharged from the hospital.
[...] The allegations go against the previous claims of infectious disease experts that people who recover from the coronavirus are already protected from potential reinfection... (MORE - details)
RE: Recovered COVID-19 patients are testing positive for coronavirus again? - Syne - Apr 13, 2020
Lots of experts have apparently pretended to know more than they actually did.
RE: Recovered COVID-19 patients are testing positive for coronavirus again? - Zinjanthropos - Apr 14, 2020
The biggest difference I can see between Covid and the flu, and it’s not that seniors are dying from it, but the fact there’s no vaccine. It’s the sole reason for locking down. Not like the common flu doesn’t kill, it’s just that we have some control over the deaths numbers. I’m sure most of us have had the flu and then relapsed. So whatever the experts are saying, other than providing fill, isn’t anywhere near as important as the vaccine. My two cents.
RE: Recovered COVID-19 patients are testing positive for coronavirus again? - Syne - Apr 14, 2020
The flu vaccine relies on them picking the right vaccine for the strain of the flu that ends up being prevalent that year. They don't always pick the right one to produce and distribute. So some years it's almost as if there is no vaccine at all. And it will likely be the same story with any Covid vaccine. It will mutate into different strains, if it hasn't already (considering its replication rate), and we'll be back to trying to pick the right vaccine to mass produce. It's all a false sense of safety...that is currently destroying the world economy, which itself will inevitably cause deaths.