Is Covid-19 becoming a normal commensal viral infection (integrated into part of human virome) ?
I noticed that recently, the Singapore MOH infection vs discharged (virus free) rate is significantly diverging. (I.e. Since March, the COVID-19 diagnosis (admission) and cure (discharged) numbers have significantly ceased to be parallel lines).
This means that many of the infected are not being discharged in maybe ~2 weeks after admission (diagnosis) as previous statistics before March showed.
Is this because
1) testing methods have improved to be more sensitive so what was previously considered virus free and allowed discharge is now diagnosed as still infected and thus not discharged from hospital or medical treatment facility?
2) or the virus just mutated to become more virulent so it takes even longer for body to clear the virus?
Can MOH please reveal to us, what is the median and extremes in duration of infection for those already discharged patients and the median duration of infection for those still considered infected because the chart is beginning to look quite bad in sense that those admitted are not getting discharged. What is the longest so far known duration of infection. Is this virus very clever and able to mutate like HIV so the infected persons can never be cured but just have their infections placed under control?
Or is it because MOH has shortage of test kits so only new patients are being prioritised for testing and that existing patients cannot be considered healed simply because they are not being tested and thus they are unnecessarily staying in hospital because the hospital has insufficient test kit resources to test and certify clear these folks.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...ported-travel-history-uk-us-malaysia-12570840
If the reason is because of a new test kit or protocol being used, then the question remains whether any of the previously discharged COVID-19 cases have been retested and found to be still infected according to the new protocol. If so, then MOH should report this situation to the WHO because that would mean a significant information about the virus characteristics (is it now part of human virome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_virome) and that maybe MOH will just have to release some infected people but ask them to wear masks and quarantine themselves, incase MOH runs out of quarantine facilities as numbers of infected persons shoots up.
Reference :
Commensal viruses contribute to gut health
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-019-0241-5
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_virome
I noticed that recently, the Singapore MOH infection vs discharged (virus free) rate is significantly diverging. (I.e. Since March, the COVID-19 diagnosis (admission) and cure (discharged) numbers have significantly ceased to be parallel lines).
This means that many of the infected are not being discharged in maybe ~2 weeks after admission (diagnosis) as previous statistics before March showed.
Is this because
1) testing methods have improved to be more sensitive so what was previously considered virus free and allowed discharge is now diagnosed as still infected and thus not discharged from hospital or medical treatment facility?
2) or the virus just mutated to become more virulent so it takes even longer for body to clear the virus?
Can MOH please reveal to us, what is the median and extremes in duration of infection for those already discharged patients and the median duration of infection for those still considered infected because the chart is beginning to look quite bad in sense that those admitted are not getting discharged. What is the longest so far known duration of infection. Is this virus very clever and able to mutate like HIV so the infected persons can never be cured but just have their infections placed under control?
Or is it because MOH has shortage of test kits so only new patients are being prioritised for testing and that existing patients cannot be considered healed simply because they are not being tested and thus they are unnecessarily staying in hospital because the hospital has insufficient test kit resources to test and certify clear these folks.
If the reason is because of a new test kit or protocol being used, then the question remains whether any of the previously discharged COVID-19 cases have been retested and found to be still infected according to the new protocol. If so, then MOH should report this situation to the WHO because that would mean a significant information about the virus characteristics (is it now part of human virome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_virome) and that maybe MOH will just have to release some infected people but ask them to wear masks and quarantine themselves, incase MOH runs out of quarantine facilities as numbers of infected persons shoots up.
Reference :
Commensal viruses contribute to gut health
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-019-0241-5
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_virome
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