LurkerJ said:
JRPGfan said:
Good news guys:
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1266758/tests-in-recovered-patients-in-s-korea-found-false-positives-not-reinfections-experts-say
"South Korea’s infectious disease experts said Thursday that dead virus fragments were the likely cause of over 260 people here testing positive again for the novel coronavirus days and even weeks after marking full recoveries."
"“The tests detected the ribonucleic acid of the dead virus,” said Oh, a Seoul National University hospital doctor, at a press conference Thursday held at the National Medical Center.
He went on to explain that in PCR tests, or polymerase chain reaction tests, used for COVID-19 diagnosis, genetic materials of the virus amplify during testing, whether it is from a live virus or just from fragments of dead virus cells that can take months to clear from recovered patients.
The PCR tests cannot distinguish whether the virus is alive or dead, he added, and this can lead to false positives." |
Very interesting indeed. That also means a lot of those who test positives while showing absolutely no symptoms might have recovered already and don't need to be quarantined just because they're positive?
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I think its safer to use the anitbody tests, for that sort.
Why "guess or gamle", when theres a test that can clear a person instead? Basically theres no need for a "maybe".
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