Posted on 04/14/2020 9:33:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ninety-one people in South Korea believed to have been cured of COVID-19 have tested positive again, according to Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Experts are trying to figure how this could have happened, and a few theories seem to be sticking.
Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, medical director of CityMD and a Fox News contributor, chalks many of those potential reinfections up to human error. It's possible, she explained on Monday's "Outnumbered," that the medical workers who administered the original tests did not take enough specimens in their swabs, potentially resulting in false negatives. David Kelvin, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Dalhousie University, has also suggested that faulty tests kits could be to blame.
That's the best case scenario. Another potential explanation for the repeat positives is that the virus could be reactivating, having never exited the body in the first place. Or, worse yet, it could be another strain that is emerging. Dr. Nesheiwat "hopes and prays" that the coronavirus will prove to be a one-time illness like chickenpox and mono.
For those who have tested positive for a second time, she explained, they are treated just like any other patient and have to restart their 14-day quarantine.
Nesheiwat has stressed the importance of antibody testing and its increased accuracy in diagnosing COVID-19. She recently tried out a newly developed test herself.
I was extremely fortunate to try out the newly developed #COVID_19 antibody test— I shared my experience, as well as my results with @edhenrytv @AmericaNewsroom @foxnews pic.twitter.com/ubzl2aPs2B— Dr Janette Nesheiwat (@DoctorJanette) April 8, 2020
"We have to make sure we treat the patient and not the test," Dr. Nesheiwat reasoned.
SARS_CoV-2 was designed to ruin the human immune system,
and stay FOREVER; offering China and WHO and Gates mucho
opportunity to sell their useless vaccines
to a rapidly mutating RNA virus, over and over.
“The WHO is working with Chinese scientists to launch more than 80 clinical trials on potential treatments for SARS-CoV-2.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095177920302045
Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 5 March 2020,
Could just be viral persistence, which isn’t uncommon for RNA viruses.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879625716301559?via%3Dihub
That's never a good sign.
In other words, the experts say “we don’t know why”.
Makes sense. Any testing regimen that had to be rushed to market at breakneck speed as these have is bound to have certain unresolved flaws.
My understanding is that current tests have a 30% false negative rate.
Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, medical director of CityMD and a Fox News contributor, chalks many of those potential reinfections up to human error. It's possible, she explained on Monday's "Outnumbered," that the medical workers who administered the original tests did not take enough specimens in their swabs, potentially resulting in false negatives.
The other "explanations" are just DNC talking points swilled out by partisan stooges.
If they were all tested in the same place, by the same staff...this sounds within the realm of possible. But, short of that...they don’t know.
Stop playing around. Give folks the meds and kill the damn thing.
YES!
If the test kits come out of China, you know exactly why.
We don’t know, yet.
But, please do pick up whatever rationalization best fits the narrative most useful to you personally and run with that likes it’s the Gospel.
And maybe a 10% false positive.
Sounds like one needs a confirmatory test [perhaps a different kind in a different facility].
If they match, fine. Otherwise get a third “tie-breaker” test.
Testing positive on a swab doesn’t mean, I think, that you’re suffering from the disease. It means the virus is present. You may be perfectly immune, but it doesn’t mean the pathogen can’t get on you.
S. Korea has 10,564 total cases and 7,534 total recovered.
“Experts” are claiming 01 have become infected again.
USA has 602,977 total cases and 38,015 total recovered.
We should be seeing many cases of recurring Coronavirus.
Have any been reported?
Too many of these reports to be testing error. There is a report from China and a report from S. Korea and they do not have the same samples. Different patients. Different locales.
The official criteria for being declared Negative is two negative tests administered over 24 hours apart.
That’s 91 cases.
Experts. What don’t they know?
Let me advance this possibility - the Hydroxychloroquine-zinc-azithromycin protocol eliminates the COVID-19 virus so quickly, the body’s normal immune response that forms the antibodies never gets initiated. Or if it is initiated, the total amount of antibodies formed is so low that testing seems to render it insignificant to undetectable and impossible to evaluate.
How many different tests are there for the ChiCom-Flu?
And what are their false reading rates?
I had to deal with a simular issue when I was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.