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About 17% of COVID-19 Survivors Retest Positive on Follow-Up – Medscape
A big question remains: Are those patients who met WHO recovery criteria and then retest positive still contagious?
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For reasons unknown, about 1-in-6 people who recovered from COVID-19 subsequently retested positive at least 2 weeks later, researchers reported in a study in Italy.
Sore throat and rhinitis were the only symptoms associated with a positive result. “Patients who continued to have respiratory symptoms, especially, were more likely to have a new positive test result,” lead author Francesco Landi, MD, PhD, told Medscape…
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