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Repeat CoVid Positive Patients Don’t Spread Virus


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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

 

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Dr. Howard Smith ReportsBy Howard G. Smith MD, AM