Repeat CoVid Positive Patients Don’t Spread Virus
from Dr. Howard Smith OnCall Hosted by Howard G. Smith MD, AM
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/g6wn4vZ2oaw The few unlucky persons who test COVID positive after recovering from the virus appear not to be spreaders. This conclusion comes from a Wuhan, China study that reviewed the records of 20,280 COVID patients from December through August. The researchers also surveyed their close contacts numbering 4,079. The data show that 12% of the group were CoVid+ repeaters. These patients were representative of the group initially infected except that they tended to require 3 day longer hospitalizations and a greater proportion of females were repeaters. None of their close contacts developed positive CoVid PCR tests. The investigators suggest that these “echo” positives may occur due to residual circulating non=infectious viral remnants. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.18.20232892v1.full.pdf #covid #repeatpositive
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