QuoteA spate of mysterious second-time infections is calling into question the accuracy of COVID-19 diagnostic tools even as China prepares to lift quarantine measures to allow residents to leave the epicenter of its outbreak next month. It's also raising concerns of a possible second wave of cases.
From March 18-22, the Chinese city of Wuhan reported no new cases of the virus through domestic transmission — that is, infection passed on from one person to another. The achievement was seen as a turning point in efforts to contain the virus, which has infected more than 80,000 people in China. Wuhan was particularly hard-hit, with more than half of all confirmed cases in the country.
But some Wuhan residents who had tested positive earlier and then recovered from the disease are testing positive for the virus a second time. Based on data from several quarantine facilities in the city, which house patients for further observation after their discharge from hospitals, about 5%-10% of patients pronounced "recovered" have tested positive again.
Some of those who retested positive appear to be asymptomatic carriers — those who carry the virus and are possibly infectious but do not exhibit any of the illness's associated symptoms — suggesting that the outbreak in Wuhan is not close to being over.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/27/822407626/mystery-in-wuhan-recovered-coronavirus-patients-test-negative-then-positive
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Is he dead?
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I had thoughts about this earlier this morning
something about this virus is not right
China knows something, it's some resident evil type mess tbh
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-QmIe-Bp-o/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_mid=38B608E0-34A6-47A4-884D-2F4D4C21E101
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It's no secret you can get re-infected.
China's lying about their transmission numbers. This shit isn't over.
So this is really how we're going to end?
Quote from: Nine. on March 27, 2020, 10:53:34 PM
It's no secret you can get re-infected.
China's lying about their transmission numbers. This shit isn't over.
I mean I questioned it but this is news to me as far as reports go.
So are they just treating this mess like a cold and releasing girls back into the population when their fever goes down?
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QuoteDr. Li Wenliang, a whistleblowing doctor who later died of the virus himself in February, tested negative for the coronavirus several times before being accurately diagnosed.
In February, Wang Chen, a director at the state-run Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, estimated that the nucleic acid tests used in China were accurate at identifying positive cases of the coronavirus only 30%-50% of the time.
Another theory is that, because the test amplifies tiny bits of DNA, residual virus from the initial infection could have falsely resulted in that second positive reading.
"There are false positives with these types of tests," Dr. Jeffrey Shaman, a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, told NPR by email. Shaman recently co-authored a modeling study showing that transmission by individuals who did not exhibit any symptoms was a driver of the Wuhan outbreak.
They probably never tested negative or maybe all four for a false positive l, looks like
Quote from: Bentley. THE Moderator. on March 27, 2020, 10:48:26 PM
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I had thoughts about this earlier this morning
something about this virus is not right
China knows something, it's some resident evil type mess tbh
A Chinese doctor spoke about it last week. This virus can give false negatives and remain in your system 30 days
Quote from: Bentley. THE Moderator. on March 27, 2020, 10:48:26 PM
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I had thoughts about this earlier this morning
something about this virus is it's some resident evil type mess tbh
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A T Virus mess.