had positive RT-PCR test results 5 to 13 days later. B, Hu Evidence summary of the immune response following infection with SARS-CoV-2 or other human coronaviruses. PCR positivity is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the diagnosis of reinfection due to evidence of prolonged detection that can last weeks or in some cases months after symptom resolution. However, we cannot fully exclude the possibility of reinfection owing to the lack of whole-genome sequencing data and immune assessment tests even though there was a 28-day isolation period and 84.07% (2058/2448) of the re-positive cases occurred during this isolation. PNAS, May 6, 2020. Because the PCR test is so sensitive, it can detect very small amounts of virus material. To ensure that their results could be confirmed with different methodology, they used three different DNA sequencing techniques. A total of 1265 patients tested positive after they returned home, and 4079 individuals had close contact with them. The percentage varied from sample to sample, but for some, a relatively large fraction of viral transcripts seem to have been transcribed from viral genetic material integrated into the genome. Zengmiao Wang or Zhenyu He. The COVID-19 outbreak was first reported in Wuhan [6] and lasted for more than 3months; after May 18, 2020, there were no further locally acquired infections. Most people who contract COVID-19 likely won't experience symptoms for more than two weeks at most, but could test positive months following infection. The swab stem is then discarded and the tube cap is tightened. The time from symptom onset to recovery ranged from 12 to 32 days. A negative test means you probably did not have COVID-19 at the time of the test. The document ordered clinical epidemiological surveys to be reported as Excel and Word files two days after the PCR tests on Mar. One hospitalized patient and 3 patients (all medical personnel) quarantined at home with COVID-19 were treated at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, from January 1, 2020, to February 15, 2020, and evaluated with real-time reverse transcriptasepolymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests for COVID-19 nucleic acid to determine if they could return to work. ZJ. To screen for viral integration outside of the lab, the researchers analyzed published datasets of RNA transcripts from different types of samples, including COVID-19 patient samples. Terms of Use| This Viewpoint discusses the preparedness plans that need to be implemented in the US to combat the SARS-CoV-2 virus (the cause of COVID-19 disease), including shoring up resources in hospitals and clinics, updating of triage and isolation protocols, expanding PCR manufacturing and patient testing, and communicating to the public with unified public health messages. Both of the logistic regressions indicated that sex and hospital stay of the original infection affected the risk of a re-positive test. J Med Virol. When to Get Tested for COVID-19 Key times to get tested: If you have symptoms, test immediately. Multivariable and univariable logistic regressions were performed, and the results are shown in Table 2. China National Health Commission. Two were male and the age range was 30 to 36 years. After recovery, patients and their families were contacted directly, and patients were asked to visit the hospital to collect throat swabs for the RT-PCR tests. All of these 4079 individuals had a negative SARS-CoV-2 PCR test. Google Scholar. "If you're taking multiple at home tests, you know, the recommendation is five days later take a test. Time course of lung changes on chest CT during recovery from 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia. With a PCR, you can continue to test positive for weeks or even months after an antigen test delivers a negative result. The median time from hospital discharge to the re-positive test was 11.00days (IQR, 9.00 to 17.00). Longitudinal studies on a larger cohort would help to understand the prognosis of the disease. Password recovery. 2020;26:8427. A. They also hope to investigate whether these integrated sections of DNA could be partly to blame for some of the long-term autoimmune consequences that some COVID-19 patients experience. Ann Transl Med. Thus, the chance of these 1201 patients infecting others was very low. Alexandra L.Phelan,SJD, LLM; RebeccaKatz,PhD, MPH; Lawrence O.Gostin,JD, Discussing the ABCs of Health SecurityAntibiotic Resistance, Biothreats, and Coronavirus. Stephen M.Parodi,MD; Vincent X.Liu,MD, MSc, Care for Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19. In all samples, they found fragments of viral genetic material (though the researchers emphasize that none of the inserted fragments was enough to recreate a live virus). Learn how the field of RNA biology has been working to meet the challenges of the virus, and what Whitehead Institute RNA researchers have been working on throughout the pandemic. Of the 2466 re-positive cases, 1201 tested positive in the rehabilitation center, and only staff wearing personal protective equipment had limited contact with them. Previous studies on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mainly focused on epidemiological, clinical, and radiological features of patients with confirmed infection.1-4 Little attention has been paid to the follow-up of recovered patients. The PCR results were negative for all 4079 individuals. Among the re-positive cases, the hospital stay for the re-positive test was shorter than that of the original infection (P<0.001 from Students t-test). J. This Viewpoint discusses the potential role of ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) in the management of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and cautions about the risk of overuse and the shortage of ECMO capability given the numbers of people infected if the technology is not appropriately utilized. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. Article T, Yu MinWei,MD; JingpingYuan,MD, PhD; YuLiu,PhD; TaoFu,PhD; XueYu,MS; Zhi-JiangZhang,MD, PhD, Preparing for the Most Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19: The Potential Role of ECMO. C, This Viewpoint discusses the policy and legal ramifications of the national public health emergency declared by the US government in response the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, and examines the lawfulness of quarantine and other compulsory measures. WenlingWang,PhD; YanliXu,MD; RuqinGao,MD; RoujianLu,MPH; KaiHan,BS; GuizhenWu,MD; WenjieTan,MD, PhD. For those with symptoms, 193 (7.83%) patients had fever, cough, or shortness of breath. Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: Lan, Ye, Wang, Li. This can prevent you from activities that require a negative test result. The number of true-positive cases within this 1265 patients group is 1175.5 (126589.5). Here, the information from 118 hospitals in Wuhan on COVID-19 patients who had a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test between December 31, 2019, and August 4, 2020, was collected from the surveillance network of Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Supplementary Table1 for the names of hospitals) and performed a retrospective analysis to ascertain the epidemiological and clinical features of those with a re-positive test. It can cause muscle and joint pain, and flu-like symptoms. and Z.W conducted the analyses. Here, we applied the definition stated in [5] where re-positive cases are those who recovered from previously confirmed COVID-19 diseases and who went on to have a subsequent positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test. When a commercial kit was used, the instructions provided by the manufacturer prevailed. Get tested if you have symptoms of COVID-19 or have been exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19. One common transposon in the human genome is called the LINE1 retrotransposon, which is made up of a powerhouse combination of DNA-cutting machinery and reverse transcriptase, an enzyme that creates DNA molecules from an RNA template (like the RNA of SARS-CoV-2). Due to privacy concerns, data cannot be made openly available. The study was limited to a small number of patients with mild or moderate infection. Accessed 6 Jan 2021. Those looking to get tested after exposure should do so five days after the exposure or if they begin experiencing symptoms, the CDC recommends. 2020;8:1084. SARS-CoV-2 is not a retrovirus, which means it doesn't need reverse transcription for its replication, says Whitehead Institute postdoc and first author Liguo Zhang. There are some limitations to our study. Prevalence and outcomes of re-positive nucleic acid tests in discharged COVID-19 patients. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb6105. In this study, categorical variables are presented as numbers and percentages, and continuous variables are presented as the median (interquartile range, IQR). The ongoing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has caused more than 108 million cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) illness, and over 2.4 million people globally have died from this disease as of February 2021 [1]. "If you did want to get a test on please don't get a PCR. , Wei 2020;92:284751. No patients had these three symptoms at the same time, and 11 of the 2466 patients passed away (not due to COVID-19). The patient was tested again on the 3rd5th day after transfer and on the 11th13th day. Ye G, Pan Z, Pan Y, Deng Q, Chen L, Li J, et al. But even if it's rare, there are more than 140 million people who have been infected already, right?, New research supports finding explaining why some patients may test positive for COVID-19 long after recovery, Why RNA research has been critical during the COVID19 pandemic. Clinical characteristics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 reactivation. A P value less than 0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance. J Clin Lab Anal. They wore a mask and lived in a private room with good ventilation. PubMedGoogle Scholar. Testing was organized by the local community. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The hospital stay for the original infection in the re-positive cases was significantly longer than that in patients without a re-positive PCR test (P<0.001, Students t-test). FIND evaluation update: SARS-CoV-2 molecular diagnostics - FIND. Further studies should follow up patients who are not health care professionals and who have more severe infection after hospital discharge or discontinuation of quarantine. Demographic information, laboratory findings, and radiological features were collected from electronic medical records. The kits used are listed in Supplementary Table2. Because the nasal canal is curved, the swab should not be forced so as to avoid traumatic bleeding. Students t-test was used to compare the continuous variables of two groups. The false-positive rate was 1% (false-positive rate=1-specificity). When it comes to testing, the PCR tests are more likely to continue picking up the virus following infection. This single-center case series describes the demographics, symptoms, laboratory and imaging findings, treatment, and clinical course of 138 patients hospitalized with 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)infected pneumonia (NCIP) in Wuhan, China, highlighting presumed human-to-human hospital-associated transmission in many cases. Clinical features of COVID-19 convalescent patients with re-positive nucleic acid detection. Blue represents DNA, green shows the . This case series uses patient hospital data to summarize the clinical presentation and laboratory and imaging findings of 13 patients with confirmed 2019-nCoV infection admitted to hospitals in Beijing in January 2020. The RT-PCR test results for 4079 individuals who had close contact with the re-positive cases were also obtained. The primers and probes used targeted the ORF1ab and N gene regions of SARS-CoV-2. Negative: no Ct value or Ct value 40. PEM can affect your energy levels, concentration, sleep and memory. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Xia, Wang, Li. If this duration is short, re-detection of the initial infection is a more likely than a true reinfection, because a longer time-lapse would relate to waning immunity and lower antibody levels. From Containment to Mitigation of COVID-19 in the US. 2020 Apr . But one thing we do think we can explain is why some patients are long-term PCR positive.. All the following criteria5 had to be met for hospital discharge or discontinuation of quarantine: (1) normal temperature lasting longer than 3 days, (2) resolved respiratory symptoms, (3) substantially improved acute exudative lesions on chest computed tomography (CT) images, and (4) 2 consecutively negative RT-PCR test results separated by at least 1 day. Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported. 5 The sampled person first gargles with normal saline. Another test called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), performed in a lab, detects the genetic material of the virus and is often used to confirm a positive antigen test result. This Viewpoint summarizes key epidemiologic and clinical findings from all cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) reported through February 11, 2020, in mainland China, and case trends in response to government attempts to control and contain the infection. RT-PCR was performed again 5 to 13 days later and repeated three times over the next 4 or 5 daysand all tests were positive. After hospital discharge, the patients continued to be in isolation for 14days at a rehabilitation center, with health monitoring. This Viewpoint discusses the importance of protecting health care workers caring for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and measures that can be taken in and out of the hospital to prevent their and their families exposure to SARS-CoV-2. The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) [23] conducted independent evaluations of the 22 nucleic acid test kits for SARS-CoV-2 and reported their clinical sensitivity and clinical specificity. At the junction of the viral sequence to the cellular DNA, it makes a 20 base pair duplication.. All 4 patients had 2 consecutive negative RT-PCR test results. If you were exposed to COVID-19 and do not have symptoms, wait at least 5 full days after your exposure before testing. All Rights Reserved, Challenges in Clinical Electrocardiography, Clinical Implications of Basic Neuroscience, Health Care Economics, Insurance, Payment, Scientific Discovery and the Future of Medicine, 2020;323(15):1502-1503. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.2783. 2020;368:63842. The sampler gently holds the persons head with one hand, with the swab in the other, and slowly inserts the swab via the nostril so that it is deep, along the bottom of the lower nasal canal. Wong J, Koh WC, Momin RN, Alikhan MF, Fadillah N, Naing L. Probable causes and risk factors for positive SARS-CoV-2 test in recovered patients: evidence from Brunei Darussalam. A new study from the Jaenisch lab suggests that some virus RNA can be reverse transcribed and inserted into the human genome, which may explain why some patients continue to test positive for COVID-19 even after recovery. It is possible that only a very few human cells experience any kind of viral integration at all. Individuals who had close contact with the patient were quarantined in the isolation center and were tested on the 1st2nd day after entering quarantine and again on the 10th14th day. Highly sensitive tests, like PCR, will show a positive result for up to three months later. "Those PCR tests are very sensitive," she added. Novel coronavirus infection in hospitalized infants under 1 year of age in China. However, non-retroviral RNA virus sequences have been detected in the genomes of many vertebrate species, including humans.. All authors read and approved the manuscript. With these datasets, Zhang and Jaenisch were able to calculate the fraction of genes that were transcribed in these patients cells which contained viral sequences that could be derived from integrated viral copies. EBioMedicine. 2020;59:102960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.102960. J Inf Secur. Although people can catch COVID-19 for a second time, this did not appear to be the case for these patients; no live viruses were isolated from their samples, and some studies found these false positive results even while holding participants in quarantine. Overall, 56.12% of the re-positive cases were women. In the paper, published online May 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jaenisch and collaborators show that genetic sequences from the RNA virus SARS-CoV-2 can integrate into the genome of the host cell through a process called reverse transcription. Although false-negative RT-PCR test results could have occurred as suggested by a previous study,6 2 consecutively negative RT-PCR test results plus evidence from clinical characteristics and chest CT findings suggested that the 4 patients qualified for hospital discharge or discontinuation of quarantine. 2020;37:100748. Google Scholar. For SARS-CoV-2, the frequency of integration in humans is still unknown. Correspondence to YanBai,MD; LingshengYao,MD; TaoWei,MD; FeiTian,MD; Dong-YanJin,PhD; LijuanChen,PhD; MeiyunWang,MD, PhD, COVID-19New Insights on a Rapidly Changing Epidemic. These findings may explain why there was no subsequent infection in the majority of those with a re-positive test. An image of lung cancer cells infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Corresponding Authors: Haibo Xu, MD, PhD, Department of Radiology (xuhaibo1120@hotmail.com), and Yirong Li, MD, PhD, Department of Laboratory Medicine (liyirong838@163.com), Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Donghu Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan City 430071, Hubei Province, China. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers analyzing test results began noticing something strange: patients who had already recovered from COVID-19 would sometimes inexplicably test positive on a PCR test weeks or even months later. 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New research reveals why some patients may test positive for COVID-19 long after recovery. T, Sun The number of patients reported to have a re-positive test is small, and the duration of follow-up has been short. In our study, 20,280 patients were included; therefore, the estimated number of false-positive cases is 20,280*(114%)*1%, which is 174.4. In the case of another RNA virus that integrates into the host cell genome, only a fraction of a percent of infected cells (between .001 and .01) contained integrated viral DNA. Isolate for at least 5 full days after symptom onset and until fever free for at least 24 hours. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. Xiaomin Wu, Zengmiao Wang, Zhenyu He, Yapin Li and Huaiyu Tian contributed equally to this work. This Viewpoint describes the outbreak response infrastructure developed by the Taiwanese government following the SARS epidemic in 2003 and actions in response to COVID-19, including dedicated hotlines for symptom reporting, mobile phone messaging and case tracking, and the ramping up of facemask production. 2023 American Medical Association. 2020. Gao Z, Xu Y, Guo Y, Xu D, Zhang L, Wang X, et al. SrinivasMurthy,MD, CM, MHSc; Charles D.Gomersall,MBBS; Robert A.Fowler,MD, CM, MSc, Critical Care and the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy: Early Experience and Forecast. Blue represents DNA, green shows the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein, and red represents double-stranded RNA, which occurs when the virus replicates its genome. Qiao X-M, Xu X-F, Zi H, Liu G-X, Li B-H, Du X, et al. The sampler then immerses the swabs in sterile saline (virus preservation solution is not allowed so as to avoid antibiotic allergies) and holds the persons head up slightly. This JAMA Insights article reviews care for the most severely ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), including standards of management of ARDS, preventing SARS-CoV-2 spread in health care settings, and surge preparation. Specifically, 158 (6.41%) patients had a fever, 59 (2.39%) patients had a cough, and 18 (0.73%) patients had shortness of breath, 32 (1.30%) patients had fever and cough, 1 (0.04%) patient had cough and shortness of breath, and 9 (0.36%) patients had fever and shortness of breath. However, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) threat assessment brief [20] describes the full characteristics of cases of reinfection and the criteria used to identify SARS-CoV-2 reinfection. CAS The demographic and epidemiological characteristics of these patients were similar to those who did not have a re-positive test (Table 1). Current criteria for hospital discharge or discontinuation of quarantine and continued patient management may need to be reevaluated. 2020;323:15023. Lan L, Xu D, Ye G, et al. With ones mouth wide open, making a sound ah to expose the lateral pharyngeal tonsils, the sampler inserts the swabs, wipes it across the tongue roots, and wipes both sides of the pharyngeal tonsils with pressure at least three times. We thank the many thousands of CDC staff and local health workers in China who collected the data. https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2020.1837018. Accessed February 19, 2020. PCR tests are more sensitive than antigen tests and can pick up remnants of the virus even after your symptoms abate. Antibody get and COVID home tests (self-tests) unable be used as proof regarding optimistic COVID test unless PROCTORED. Some people who recover from COVID may test positive for weeks or even months after they were sick. This work was supported by the Major Prevention Projects of Hubei Province Health Committee (WJ2019H303), Beijing Science and Technology Planning Project (Z201100005420010), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (JQ18025), Beijing Advanced Innovation Program for Land Surface Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China (82073616), and Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by CAST (YESS) (2018QNRC001). Now, a new paper from the lab of Whitehead Institute Member and MIT professor of biology Rudolf Jaenisch may offer an answer to why some patients continue to test positive after recovery from COVID-19. Among them, 2466 (12.16%) were re-positive for SARS-CoV-2 after they were discharged from the hospital. After hospital discharge or discontinuation of quarantine, the patients were asked to continue the quarantine protocol at home for 5 days. GiacomoGrasselli,MD; AntonioPesenti,MD; MaurizioCecconi,MD, Managing COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. A systematic review of re-detectable positive virus nucleic acid among COVID-19 patients in recovery phase. A logistic regression model was used to elucidate the factors related to the risk of a re-positive test. https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/threat-assessment-brief-reinfection-sars-cov-2. A familial cluster of pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus indicating person-to-person transmission: a study of a family cluster. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards from Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the patients had contacts with the staff at the rehabilitation center, the contact was limited, and the staff wore personal protective equipment (including medical protective clothing, medical protective masks, protective goggles, medical latex gloves, shoes protectors, and work caps). Article This Viewpoint describes the organization of a regional ICU network in Lombardy, Italy, to handle the surge in patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) who require intensive care and uses demand experience in the first 2 weeks of the outbreak to estimate resources required in coming weeks. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some people who contract COVID-19 can have detectable virus for up to three months, but that doesn't mean they are contagious. A fluid sample is collected with a nasal swab or a throat swab, or you may spit into a tube to produce a saliva sample. Fully vaccinated and boosted, if eligible or tested positive for COVID-19 within the last 90 days: No quarantine necessary. A PCR test might say you're positive for coronavirus for three or four weeks after you've recovered because it's still "picking up past infection and the small fragments (of the virus) are. In this Medical News article, Tom Inglesby, MD, director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, speaks about natural and deliberate biological threats to US national security. JF-W, Yuan It's widely known that PCR tests, the highly sensitive polymerase chain reaction tests that detect viral genetic material, can pick up "dead" virus material not capable of replicating and. If the viral reads were the result of live viruses or existing viral RNAs in the cell, the researchers would expect that most of the viral transcripts would have been read in the correct orientation for the sequences in question; in acutely infected cells in culture, more than 99 percent are in the correct orientation. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30120-1. The time from a patient having a SARS-CoV-2 negative test to having a re-positive test ranged from 1 to 165days, suggesting that recovered patients may still be virus carriers and require further quarantine and confirmatory negative PCR test. The swab is then discarded the tube cap is tightened. Osman AA, Al Daajani MM, Alsahafi AJ. CAS However, there are reports that recovered COVID-19 patients can have a re-positive PCR test, i.e., they test positive for the virus again after two negative PCR results [2,3,4]. Also, RNAs generally have a short life most only stick around for a few minutes so it was unlikely for positive tests to be the result of residual RNAs. volume19, Articlenumber:77 (2021) Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. RT-PCR test. But even if it's rare, there are more than 140 million people who have been infected already, right?. 2023 American Medical Association. National major science and technology project (2018ZX10713003-001-015). Moreover, 84.07% (2058/2448) of the re-positive cases occurred during the 28-day isolation. In our follow study, the recovered COVID-19 patients experienced two 14-days isolation periods, and the chance of viral exposure was quite low. DaweiWang,MD; BoHu,MD; ChangHu,MD; FangfangZhu,MD; XingLiu,MD; JingZhang,MD; BinbinWang,MD; HuiXiang,MD; ZhenshunCheng,MD; YongXiong,MD; YanZhao,MD; YirongLi,MD; XinghuanWang,MD; ZhiyongPeng,MD, Clinical Characteristics of Patients With Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection Hospitalized in Beijing, China. Then wear a well-fitting mask at all times around others for an additional 5 days. These sections of the genome can then be read into RNAs, which could potentially be picked up by a PCR test. Cevik M, Tate M, Lloyd O, Maraolo AE, Schafers J, Ho A. SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV viral load dynamics, duration of viral shedding, and infectiousness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The nose swab PCR test for COVID-19 is an accurate and reliable test for diagnosing COVID-19. Report inappropriate content majordom2000 London, United. JAMA. All statistical analyses were performed using R version 3.4.11 (www.r-project.org). The RT-PCR tests were repeated 5 to 13 days later and all were positive. All Rights Reserved. collected the statistical data. Part of Homepage tests and antibody tests are not accepted. In our study, the duration between hospital discharge and a re-positive test was 11.00 (IQR, 9.00 to 17.00). All of the close contacts were family members. Previous studies showed that recovered coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients can have a subsequent positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) after they are discharged from the hospital. Kit instructions of the manufacturers were followed for nucleic acid extraction, the real-time fluorescence-based RT-PCR reaction system, and the reaction conditions. Author Contributions: Drs H. Xu and Li had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. This retrospective study in Wuhan analyzed the basic characteristics of recovered COVID-19 patients with re-positive PCR test and found that these cases may not be infectious. All Rights Reserved. wrote the manuscript. When the tip of the swab reaches the posterior wall of the nasopharyngeal cavity, it is gently rotated once (pause for a moment in case of reflex cough). , Coronavirus Outbreakan Evolving Global Health Emergency, FDA Warns Coronavirus Outbreak May Disrupt Supply of Critical Medical Products, Coronavirus InfectionsMore Than Just the Common Cold.
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