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Citation? I saw the one story about people "testing positive again" but that seemed to be a testing abnormality, not people getting sick a second time.
by xsmasher 7y ago
Citation?
I saw the one story about people "testing positive again" but that seemed to be a testing abnormality, not people getting sick a second time.
- eps 7y agohttps://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-13/china-japan-korea-coronavirus-reinfection-test-positive https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-13/china-...
- xsmasher 7y agoTime will tell, but from that article: >Scientists in and outside China agree that reinfection is a highly unlikely explanation for the patients who retest positive. They say testing errors are more likely to blame — either false negatives that resulted in patients being discharged too early, or false positives when they retested and were taken back into hospital.