Some COVID-19 Patients Test Positive Days After Recovery Covid-19 Recovery
Four medical professionals with COVID-19 who met the criteria for hospital release or lifting of quarantine inside China had positive real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) results 5 to 13 days later, according to a yesterday inside The Lancet describing how their country's first two COVID-19 patients tested positive for the virus even though they didn't meet current case definitions.
The patients were identified as at-risk while still inside the community and transported from their motel to the university hospital, where they were tested.
The researchers said that the case highlights important points about the administration of COVID-19. "Had [clinical] criteria been strictly applied, testing might not have been done," they wrote, noting that applying case definitions is the best way to goal testing. "However, with any newly emerging infection, case definitions necessity evolve rapidly as information accrues."
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