05-23-2020, 02:14 PM
Speedy wrote:
Patel also sounded an optimistic note about the other reports of COVID-19 survivors who have retested positive. “I haven’t seen global evidence of reinfection,” she said. It might be a plausible explanation in some cases, she added, “but given how infectious this virus is, I would expect there to be more.”
Latest report out of Hong Kong: Those who tested positive again after recovering from the virus were not shedding the virus. The test was detecting inactive fragments of the virus that were still present weeks afterwards. They were not contagious.