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Tuesday, 19 May, 2020
Covid Patients Testing Positive After Recovery Aren’t Infectious, Study Shows (Bloomberg)
Researchers are finding evidence that patients who test positive for the coronavirus after recovering aren’t capable of transmitting the infection, and could have the antibodies that prevent them from falling sick again. Scientists from the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied 285 COVID-19 survivors who had tested positive for the coronavirus after their illness had apparently resolved, as indicated by a previous negative test result. Bloomberg quoted Assistant Professor Danielle Anderson, from Duke-NUS' Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) programme, in this report.
Original article: Covid Patients Testing Positive After Recovery Aren’t Infectious, Study Shows (Bloomberg)