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Posted on 03/28/2020 9:02:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Up to 10 percent of coronavirus patients leaving medical facilities in Wuhan after being tested negative for Covid-19 seem to have subsequently been re-infected, according to the South China Morning Post. This is not the first time that there have been reports of re-infection. Nevertheless, scientists say that it is unlikely that the virus is striking twice.
Doctors in Wuhan are bemused. Healthcare workers in this central Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged have observed several instances in which patients have left hospital with no remaining traces of the virus in their bodies and then tested positive for the coronavirus a second time.
In all, up to 10 percent of coronavirus patients seem to have been “re-infected”, according to one hospital and several quarantine centres in Wuhan, where daily life is gradually returning to normal after several months of confinement.
Tongji Hospital – where the first cases of Covid-19 were detected – announced that out of 147 patients who were sent back home within a week, five tested positive again; that is to say, 3 percent. This was the case for a higher proportion of patients in the quarantine centres, with this figure ranging from 5 to 10 percent.
Defying the laws of virology?
This is not the first time that the coronavirus has appeared to infect the same person twice. At the end of February, a 40-year-old woman tested positive ten days after leaving a healthcare centre in the Japanese city Osaka, after apparently having been “cured”.
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Fecal contamination from poor hygiene ( and lousy toiletry conditions, eg China), is definitely a route of transmission secondary to respiratory droplets.
It is less a problem here in the states except where hygiene and sanitation may be an issue, I.e. urban centers with homeless populations and senior care facilities (few people know the conditions; they frequently smell like stool, urine and bleach, staffed by minimum wage workers to assist a handful to f overworked nurses).
I know. I will self-retire before being placed in such a facility in the future and have an open order to friends/family to put me out of my misery if I cannot communicate, feed myself and wipe my own ass.
But that’s just for me. I do not judge.
I heard the virus wears a black mask and cape and targets the stupid.
Ha ha. I had a woman asking me the other day if she should use Lysol on bananas and other fruit. I’ll grant the virus is real. I’ll also grant most of this is fear based and a power grab( attempt) to destroy America with zero follow through plan. Maybe I’ve been reading the nut ball conspiracy posts too long?
And so it is.
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