Pretty much every virologist has been saying this from the start. Unfortunately it will take a lot longer to convince the general public that these +ve tests aren’t reinfections. It doesn’t make as dramatic a headline!
What have I been saying for months about purported reinfections with SARS-CoV-2? There are none! RT-PCR detects pieces of RNA not infectious virus!! https://bit.ly/35jJYYZ Tests in recovered patients found false positives, not reinfections, experts say
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Unfortunately, the public and media people do not understand what viruses are, how they're constructed, or molecular biology. So, trying to explain that the COVID-19 test only detects a couple of strings of RNA base pairs that code for nuclear capsid proteins is near impossible.
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New data: Electron Microscopy of viral particles deep in the lungs of a patient doctors thought had cleared the virus. This is a persistent virus. Not acute. ID docs in the USA have said this for weeks. This virus lingers in protected sites.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3082200/coronavirus-may-lurk-deep-lungs-after-patients-recover-study?utm_source=Twitter …
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Not reinfection. Patients don't clear the original infection. Virus is persistent.
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That is some good news.
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Yea but the original reports were not referencing test results. People in hospitals seemingly recovered from it, and then were readmitted
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People may have been released too quickly. The article doesn't say anything about people being readmitted.
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Promising (and not surprising), but has this been published in a peer-reviewed journal yet? If not, should we treat this news as likely but not yet proven? What does this mean for the CDC preferred protocol of 2 negative PCR tests 24 h apart before return to work?
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persistence of genetic material for long time after clearance of viremia is proven (peer reviewed) in other cases as well
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go off Vinny!! (p.s. have been following you for virus updates I can trust!! hope you all are doing well :))
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Yeah, Vinny’s the best!
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