In South Korea, A Growing Number Of COVID-19 Patients Test Positive After RecoveryQuoteA growing number of recovered COVID-19 patients are relapsing in South Korea, raising new questions and concerns among scientists and health authorities after the country successfully flattened the curve.
By Friday, Korean health authorities had identified 163 patients who tested positive again after a full recovery. The number more than doubled in about a week, up from 74 cases on April 9. Those patients — just over 2% of the country's 7,829 recovered patients — are now back in isolation.
According to Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data on Friday, the age and regional distribution of relapse cases are largely in line with that of the total infections.
To find out reasons for relapse, South Korean health authorities are running a range of tests and vetting various scenarios. The World Health Organization said last week that it is investigating the issue. While a fuller analysis will take at least a few weeks, early findings suggest there can be more than one cause.
Top KCDC officials said in recent briefings that the most likely possibility is reactivation of remaining viruses in patients' systems. If a patient had not developed sufficient immunity against the virus or if a patient's immune system weakens after recovery, the previously undetectable level of virus concentration could rebound. Or the novel coronavirus may be capable of staying dormant before reactivating.
Another possibility is that tests are picking up dead virus particles that are no longer infectious or transmissible. KCDC director-general Jeong Eun-kyeong said Friday that viruses collected from six relapse cases could not be cultivated in isolation, signifying that they are either dead or too small in number.
But some relapsed patients may have living viruses that make them sick. As of Friday, at least 61 developed symptoms, albeit mild.
A live virus is probably also transmissible, according to Jeong, but no secondary transmission by relapsed cases has been reported.
Reinfection through another virus carrier is a less probable scenario, considering that patients are retesting positive not long after they are released from treatment. Jeong said on Friday that relapse cases are detected an average of 13.5 days after recovery. The longest reported interval, however, is 35 days.
KCDC has also mentioned errors in testing or sample collecting as potential causes.
Short of definitive answers, authorities are for now advising recovered patients to stay home for an additional two weeks and to monitor for symptoms.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/17/836747242/in-south-korea-a-growing-number-of-covid-19-patients-test-positive-after-recover
This is.... Really discouraging and bad. :-/
But are they dying.
you can recatch how the flu!
Yea. You can recatch anything if you go around a person with it.
Lol on abc news Trump was encouraging protestors to go out and rally, going against all the restrictions he has been talking about. Pence was seen meeting a government official without a mask on. The government gives no fucks
Cure this mess I don't wanna die
Quote from: trapMysoul on April 19, 2020, 08:32:50 PM
Yea. You can recatch anything if you go around a person with it.
True
Still going to the beach King? :-P
This article doesn't say it, but some folks were tested positive after 24 hours of being cured
Quote from: ton on April 19, 2020, 08:37:59 PM
This article doesn't say it, but some folks were tested positive after 24 hours of being cured
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:omgwatshappening:
vvvvvccccccvvvvvvv not her DOUBLING back a bit
fuck
Quote from: Apollo XXI on April 19, 2020, 08:32:28 PM
But are they dying.
you can recatch how the flu!
!!!!!
Not everything is as it seems y'all.
Read between the lines.
QuoteSome COVID-19 patients who have been declared cured after testing negative twice in 24 hours end up relapsing, if that's even the proper way to describe it. They test positive again at a later point in time, and there's no clear answer as to why that happens. Also, it's unclear whether these patients are contagious and can infect others, but some of them do show mild COVID-19 symptoms upon the second reinfection.
https://bgr.com/2020/04/19/coronavirus-symptoms-some-recovered-covid-19-patients-retest-positive/
I've never had the flu
Don't want this mess either
this is the new aids
Quote from: BrokenHeartsHeal on April 19, 2020, 09:11:40 PM
this is the new aids
Dbdbbd
Well AIDS is kinda still a main pop girl so idk about that.
This virus is behaving like HIV..
You can lower HIV to undetectable levels. But once you come off your meds the virus rebounds and comes back stronger.
This Coronavirus is starting to look like something that was man made and not something that naturally occured...
Quote from: Blackpantha on April 19, 2020, 09:15:42 PM
This virus is behaving like HIV..
You can lower HIV to undetectable levels. But once you come off your meds the virus rebounds and comes back stronger.
This Coronavirus is starting to look like something that was man made and not something that naturally occured...
Man made for sure.
People really thought you could have it and not catch it again. wow
Quote from: trapMysoul on April 19, 2020, 09:24:05 PM
People really thought you could have it and not catch it again. wow
i think the shocker is moreso how quick the shit is coming back, not even days for some. So this is very discouraging and confusing about the tests and all.
What's even more telling is that Remdesivir an old HIV drug that was approved back in 2000/2001 and also an anti malaria drug is showing very promising results in combating this virus. It's genone map shows HIV and malaria make up.
This virus was man made!
Not a sequel mess owt
ohhhh bitch :uhh: :uhh: :uhh:
here we go