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I wish they also talked about symptomatic vs just testing positive. Are there cases where someone got discharged after going through the 2-3 week cycle of sympt

I wish they also talked about symptomatic vs just testing positive. Are there cases where someone got discharged after going through the 2-3 week cycle of symptoms, became free of symptoms and then got sick again ? That's the more interesting case for me than just testing positive which could be attributed to testing errors

flocial 6y ago
From the article: "Of the 137 cases that have clinical and epidemiological information, 61 showed symptoms again, the KCDC said."
mrandish 6y ago
> than just testing positive which could be attributed to testing errors We know that these RT-PCR tests have about a 30% error rate and the errors are almost entirely false negatives, especially early and late in the infection. There's informed speculation that one of the reasons we're still unsure if kids get it less or just test out less because their immune systems fight it off so well that the load is more frequently under the 'positive' threshhold.