new deadly human-to-human-transmissible coronavirus emerges out of China
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In South Korea, the proportion of (apparently recovered) cases that retest positive is low -- of the 7,829 people who have recovered from coronavirus there, 2.1% retested positive, the KCDC said Friday. It is not clear how many of the people who have recovered have been tested again.
But patients retesting positive is still a concern around the world, including in countries like South Korea where authorities appear to have brought the outbreak under control.
KCDC deputy director Kwon Joon-wook said that so far, there's no indication that patients who retest positive are contagious, even though about 44% of them showed mild symptoms. But he cautioned there is still a lot scientists don't know about the virus, including the issue of naturally acquired immunity.
For now, the most likely explanation of why people are retesting positive seems to be that the test is picking up remnants of the virus. There are other theories for why patients may be retesting positive: there might be an error with the test, or the virus could have been reactivated.
Kwon says there is no evidence so far of a person who has retested positive being infectious, adding: "At the moment, we think that there is no danger of further secondary or tertiary transmission." (but) After coronavirus patients are declared recovered, the KCDC recomends two more weeks of self-isolation.
The number of recovered patients who have retested positive for the virus has raised concerns about how antibodies work in response to Covid-19.
The KCDC plans to test 400 specimens from people who have been infected and recovered to see how much -- if any -- immunity having Covid-19 might give people. Kwon says those tests may take several weeks.
In the end, Kwon said, it comes down to this: "We don't know much about Covid-19."
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WHO says no evidence antibody tests can determine immunity
Now, this is CNN, not always known for subtly and completeness, quoting WHO, not always known for timeliness. But WHO is raising an important point that there's been no link made yet between antibodies and immunity.
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WaPo:
As U.S. coronavirus fatality rate rises to 5%, experts are trying to grasp how deadly virus is
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
WaPo:
As U.S. coronavirus fatality rate rises to 5%
Nope.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/antibody-research-coronavirus-widespread
/story?id=70206121
Meanwhile, WaPo's owner Jeff Bezos' online empire is doing wonderfully amid the manufactured Coomph Mania.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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WHO says no evidence antibody tests can determine immunity
Now, this is CNN, not always known for subtly and completeness, quoting WHO, not always known for timeliness. But WHO is raising an important point that there's been no link made yet between antibodies and immunity.
CNN is an agenda driven hyper-partisan hack job, according to Cuomo's brother who hates working there. They haven't dealt in actual objective journalism in decades.
The WHO is a Chinese shill outfit and propagators of a Liberal Globalist Agenda. Their US funding has been temporarily shut off, and it is hoped that we never resume giving money to them again.
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I agree. All of that is funny, despite it being true.
Which part made you laugh, Karen?
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Quote:SIXSTRINGSHIT- why don't you just call KIKI a "Russian troll" and turn into a GSTRING?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I agree. All of that is funny, despite it being true.
Which part made you laugh, Karen?
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:SIXSTRINGSHIT- why don't you just call KIKI a "Russian troll" and turn into a GSTRING?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I agree. All of that is funny, despite it being true.
Which part made you laugh, Karen?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Too late. I already did.
She should probably stop spouting fear mongering propaganda that is enabling a shift of our government toward Communism.
She only believes the numbers that show worst case scenario and throws out any that destroys her agenda.
I had no idea that I was friendly with hostile agent Karen this whole time.
Second praises Communist tactics because he's an idiot and probably isn't even aware that he's doing it. Karen is not an idiot.
GString might have been right about her all this time.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:6ix, what you are doing is called Red-baiting. Republicans have been doing it since before your parents were born: "As the Cold War heated up in the years following World War II, liberal political candidates were frequently accused of being either Communists or at the very least sympathetic to the Communist Party." - www.jstor.org/stable/43264751?seq=1
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Too late. I already did.
She should probably stop spouting fear mongering propaganda that is enabling a shift of our government toward Communism.
She only believes the numbers that show worst case scenario and throws out any that destroys her agenda.
I had no idea that I was friendly with hostile agent Karen this whole time.
Second praises Communist tactics because he's an idiot and probably isn't even aware that he's doing it. Karen is not an idiot.
GString might have been right about her all this time.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Trump's lawyer, Roy Cohn, was a famous Red-baiting Republican who worked with the ultimate Red-baiting Republican, Senator Joe McCarthy. Red-baiting is in the DNA of Republicans. It is a habit of theirs very much like dogs eating poop. You dogs do it, but to humans it is disgusting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy#Army%E2%80%93McCarthy_he
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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