Troubling info making recovery more complicated

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

This really is a case to ensure we should not be relaxing restrictions too soon. 

Chinese doctors in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in December, say a growing number of cases in which people recover from the virus, but continue to test positive without showing symptoms, is one of their biggest challenges as the country moves into a new phase of its containment battle.

Those patients all tested negative for the virus at some point after recovering, but then tested positive again, some up to 70 days later, the doctors said. Many have done so over 50-60 days.

The prospect of people remaining positive for the virus, and therefore potentially infectious, is of international concern, as many countries seek to end lockdowns and resume economic activity as the spread of the virus slows. Currently, the globally recommended isolation period after exposure is 14 days.

www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-patients-ins/recovered-almost-chinas-early-patients-unable-to-shed-coronavirus-idUSKCN2240HI

[haapai]

Worth clicking on.  You may be tempted to dismiss it as an article that you have read before but it's actually new. 

The part that bothers me the most is that the patient whose story the article was built around has been tested dozens of times.  That puts the kibosh on my hopes that most of these patients who test positive after two negative tests were the unfortunate victims of false negatives or poor sample-taking. 

It also pours cold water on my hopes that I could just get this disease, recover and resume normal life.  I know that's not a sane or rational desire but it does have a tendency to sneak up on one in the middle of the night. 

[teen persuasion]

That is troubling, indeed.

The US is going to have a challenge controlling things, because we are not doing this level of testing people. Most cases are not formally confirmed, just presumed based on symptoms unless they get to hospital level intervention status. Those unconfirmed cases are asked to quarantine until x number of days after symptoms/fever gone. Then they are deemed "recovered". If they were never tested to see if they were Covid, they were never tested for recovery, either (tests reserved for first responders and the sickest patients).

[Spellbound454]

Try not to get the disease.

I think social distancing may last for a while....... People could soon work in employment where they could practice distancing. Shops, Construction, office work, manufacturing etc

but big venues social gathering may have to wait until its a bit safer.

Wearing masks and sanitising hands may become second nature.....until at least there is a widespread prevention and treatment.

[Tiny]

So, if it's like, say, the herpes simplex virus (HSV) (you know the one that gives you cold sores and that like 90% of humans have) or the Chicken pox virus.... what kind of nasty illness are we all info years AFTER we've had Covid19 when the dormant virus "wakes up" again?

[djAdvocate]

we need a vaccine. period.

[pulmonarymd]

Apr 25, 2020 9:17:25 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

we need a vaccine. period.

that is if we can find one that confers immunity. Not proven that we get a durable immune response yet