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EPISODE · Nov 27, 2020 · 1 MIN

Repeat CoVid Positive Patients Don’t Spread Virus

from Dr. Howard Smith OnCall · host 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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