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Coronavirus Is Found in Semen of Covid-19 Patients
The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 8, 2020 | Preetika Rana

Posted on 05/08/2020 5:57:42 PM PDT by KingofZion

The new coronavirus has been found in the semen of infected individuals, according to Chinese researchers, raising the prospect that the virus could be sexually transmitted.

The study, other researchers warn, also raises many questions. It doesn’t explain how much viral load was present in the sperm; nor did it examine whether the virus can be transmitted through sexual activity. The study, conducted at China’s Shangqiu Municipal Hospital, was described in a research letter published Thursday by the JAMA Network of medical journals.

It is the first to detect the virus in reproductive fluids. Further research is needed to understand whether safe-sex practices should be part of Covid-19-prevention efforts, say medical experts who read the paper.

“These are intriguing results,” said John Brooks, chief medical officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid-19 response. But it doesn’t mean that semen is infectious, he noted. “When we’re looking everywhere for this virus, we’re finding its footprints in different places in the body—whether that’s a trace or if it’s a big foot is very hard to say.”

In the study, Chinese researchers said semen from six out of 38 Covid-19 survivors tested positive for the virus. Four out of the six individuals were in “the acute stage of infection” at the time of semen collection, and the remaining two “had achieved clinical recovery,” according to the paper. Later, the study said those two individuals “were recovering,” confusing some clinicians. The authors didn’t respond to requests for comment.

“If they were recovering, it’s less problematic than if they had fully recovered,” said David Baud, the head of obstetrics at Switzerland’s Lausanne University Hospital. Sick and bedridden individuals are unlikely to have a sexual drive so the risk of transmission is low.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; mgtow; pua; redpill; tranmission; wuhan
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To: AndyJackson

At least they got a happy ending.


41 posted on 05/08/2020 7:44:48 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: KingofZion

I don’t think so.


42 posted on 05/08/2020 7:47:18 PM PDT by tinyowl
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To: KingofZion

Great!

Yet another thing ladies will no longer do to avoid to reduce getting Covid on their faces.


43 posted on 05/08/2020 8:01:24 PM PDT by NoLibZone (We failed the single biggest test of our resolve. It's illegal to protest our government in public.)
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To: KingofZion

Great!

Yet another thing ladies will no longer do to avoid getting Covid on their faces.


44 posted on 05/08/2020 8:02:40 PM PDT by NoLibZone (We failed the single biggest test of our resolve. It's illegal to protest our government in public.)
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To: KingofZion

You thought it was bad when infected Chinese were deliberately spitting everywhere...


45 posted on 05/08/2020 8:07:06 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: KingofZion

Gays are not gonna be happy with that kind of news.

Especially when they can’t swallow.


46 posted on 05/08/2020 8:31:35 PM PDT by adorno
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To: one guy in new jersey

There was early reporting that Covid had some HIV components, I think the spike.


47 posted on 05/08/2020 8:58:57 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: NonValueAdded

But I heard Birx and Fauci say dont touch your eyes, nose or mouth — so I am guessing there is only one way for this to be sexually transmitted, which puts ol’ Monica Lewinski in peril...


48 posted on 05/08/2020 9:05:25 PM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: KingofZion

When asked to comment on this Obama said, “The news about this just keeps getting worse. It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth”.


49 posted on 05/08/2020 9:14:21 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: KingofZion

#1. Re “I want to know how the samples were collected”.

NO YOU DON”T!!

[And any rumors that bats were used to extract samples is purely fiction, I think}


50 posted on 05/08/2020 9:55:30 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: adorno

#46. Re “Gays” not being happy “esp. when they can’t swallow”.

Might explain why Adam Schiff’s head is so huge and eyes are bulking. Overloaded! Have to ask Rep. Swallowswell if he knows anything about this. /sarc/my/ass


51 posted on 05/08/2020 10:00:20 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: gov_bean_ counter

FReepmail.


52 posted on 05/08/2020 10:12:47 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
[And any rumors that bats were used to extract samples is purely fiction, I think}

Did you mean "bats"...or balls?

53 posted on 05/08/2020 10:14:10 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: KingofZion
Coronavirus Is Found in Semen of Covid-19 Patients

It's always in the last place you look!

54 posted on 05/08/2020 10:14:55 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

#53. Your words give me so many opportunities to be risqué and beyond, esp. “bats” or “balls” and “semen samples”, etc.

Bats can suck semen and then can be milked for it. They would get it from the balls (and not the baseball kind).

Or, a nurse/doctor could take a baseball bat and wack the patient’s balls and get semen samples that way. OUCH!

Or they could get their staff to get it from the patient’s staff. Isn’t the English language fluid? Oh, I shouldn’t have used that word. Sorry.

Quoting from the bible, “thy rod and they staff they comfort me”. Not any more if somebody wants a “sample”.

The patient then would want to get the “bat” out of here.

Sarcing all the way. Meanwhile, do you know where your leftist congresspersons are now (safe and away from work), or do you care?

The US is always safer when Congress is NOT in session, Jeff or otherwise.


55 posted on 05/08/2020 10:56:23 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

No, they’re Asian.


56 posted on 05/09/2020 12:12:49 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: gas_dr

Actually, they say the virus cannot survive in the gut so a Lewinski is the only safe bet.


57 posted on 05/09/2020 3:04:41 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: KingofZion

LOL...no kidding.


58 posted on 05/09/2020 3:13:35 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: KingofZion

If one is going to become exposed to it via semen, the actual transmission of the virus likely occurs during foreplay...


59 posted on 05/09/2020 4:01:51 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: KingofZion

She was a spitter.


60 posted on 05/09/2020 6:53:59 AM PDT by moovova
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