On March 14, the Chinese Communist Party media Sina.com reported that a few days ago, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, reported a case of local new crown pneumonia patient tested positive after 45 days of recovery. Investigation by this reporter revealed that the current Epidemic has a 10% re-positive rate. However, the mechanism of re-positive is still an unsolved mystery. (Editor’s note: New Coronavirus pneumonia should be called Chinese Communist virus pneumonia, same below)
It was reported that the re-positive patient, a female, 75 years old, resident of Huanggu District, Shenyang, was diagnosed as a confirmed patient with New Coronavirus pneumonia on January 10, 2021, treated at Shenyang Sixth People’s Hospital, and discharged clinically cured on January 24. The patient was discharged from Shenyang Sixth People’s Hospital and continued to implement centralized health monitoring, and was transferred Home after 28 days of health monitoring on February 21 to meet the criteria for leaving the hospital. The re-positive patient has now been transferred to the Sixth People’s Hospital in Shenyang to isolate and improve the relevant examination, currently no fever and other clinical symptoms, no new lung CT lesions. The close contacts have been identified have been implemented control measures and nucleic acid testing, the test results are negative. The CDC has carried out final disinfection of the residence of the re-positive patient and the places he visited.
Wang Ping, deputy director of the Shenyang CDC, said the new crown “re-positive” patients is not the first Time, previously, the country has appeared in many places “re-positive” patients. There are no cases of re-infection of others after the re-surgery. The new pneumonia epidemic is a new infectious disease, and pneumonia itself is a relatively long-lasting disease, some elderly people or patients in poor health, their recovery is slower, and recovery time is also long. This is mainly due to the disease and the individual’s physical condition. During the recovery process, some people may experience fluctuations in their nucleic acid test results. The mechanism of “recovery” is still not very clear, and further research is underway.
The reporter Li Chenyu investigation found that on August 24, 2020, according to the Lancet website published a paper, “In a Chinese study, 12 out of 117 recovered COVID-19 patients were found to have regained positivity”.
According to the article, cases of the CCP virus were actually seen in mainland China as early as December 2019. The article describes that several cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology have been reported since December 2019. on January 7, Chinese scientists identified a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (previously known as 2019-nCoV). on February 11, 2020, WHO officially named this pneumonic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (Note: i.e., CCP virus ). Several medical experts followed up 117 patients who recovered at Yueqing Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University.
All patients were hospitalized in the isolation ward from January 2020 to March 2020 and followed up in the outpatient clinic of Yueqing Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University after discharge. Of these 117 patients, nearly one-third had at least one or more comorbidities, the most common of which were hypertension (14-5%) and diabetes mellitus (11-1%).
Of the 12 patients who were redetected positive for SARS-CoV-2, sputum specimens were used in 8 cases and stool in the remaining 4 cases. In conclusion, patients with COVID-19 may still retest positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA even if they meet the discharge criteria. It should be noted that there is no evidence that retest-positive patients are infectious, however, isolation and active RT-PCR retesting of discharged patients is still recommended.
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