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why dorms kana lockdown for more than 3 months already but still got so many cases???

Leongsam

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Because Wuhan was locked down and everyone had holed up in their own cubicles.

In the forum dorms they're all still living together as clusters.

However there is nothing much to worry about as the virus is harmless and the vast majority of those who test positive don't even know they are infected because they have absolutely no symptoms whatsoever.
 

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Because Wuhan was locked down and everyone had holed up in their own cubicles.

In the forum dorms they're all still living together as clusters.

However there is nothing much to worry about as the virus is harmless and the vast majority of those who test positive don't even know they are infected because they have absolutely no symptoms whatsoever.
KNN even they were +ve by 3mths they would have leecovered unless they leecovered and reinfected KNN
 

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https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/covid-19-patients-no-longer-infectious-11-days-after-getting-sick-research-shows

Covid-19 patients no longer infectious 11 days after getting sick, research shows
Singapore now discharges patients only after two swab tests are negative for the virus.



Singapore now discharges patients only after two swab tests are negative for the virus.ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
PUBLISHED
MAY 23, 2020, 8:32 PM SGT

Salma Khalik
Senior Health Correspondent

SINGAPORE - After 11 days of getting sick, Covid-19 patients no longer pose a risk of spreading the disease - which means they can be safely discharged.
Singapore now discharges patients only after two swab tests are negative for the virus. But a local study has shown that while the patients might test positive, it "does not equate to infectiousness or viable virus".
<------------- (actually after 8 days the virus composition itself is dead and cannot be split and appeared 'alive' and they thought it is then non-infectious in truth it was or has never been infectious at all it is not a living thing that can reproduce at all ! The Covid 'virus' is a waste cell or toxin we purge and is never 'alive' not like bacterials that is alive can reproduce and moves by itself. )
That's because the test detects parts of the virus' genome, but is unable to show if they are just fragments of the virus, or if an intact virus is no longer viable and can't infect anyone.

The position paper from Singapore's infectious diseases experts say these new findings allow for revised discharge criteria.

However, the decision on whether to change the discharge criteria has to come from the Ministry of Health (MOH), which was informed of the study results some days ago. (<----------- Guess what it must have been conveniently sweep under the carpet and oppies are too bz or daft to bang on this ! I've post this here on May 26th. Use this properly how papy has smoke the people and destroy our economy, livelihood and health for ERECTION it would have woke the old boomers because they're kiasi kiasu kpkb bo zi bo lampar mofos is it not ? We would be able to meet up and drink champagne together by nao !) lol........

When asked, MOH said: "The Ministry of Health will closely study the position statement and evaluate how we can incorporate the latest evidence on the period of infectivity for persons with Covid-19 into our patient clinical management plan."

It added that Singapore's medical strategy on managing Covid-19 patients is guided by the latest local and international clinical and scientific evidence.

Should MOH accept the evidence from the paper and adopt a time-based discharge, more than 80 per cent of patients could go home after 11 days of illness. (<---------- how many were tested fake positive and isolated from their loved ones for nothing, you know the crime and how chek ark, inhumane is this ! )

The rest might need longer clinical care because of more severe illness. But they, too, would no longer be infectious after 11 days and no longer require isolation.

The paper was released on Saturday (May 23) by the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and the Academy of Medicine's Chapter of Infectious Disease Physicians.


The chapter represents more than a third of Singapore's 87 infectious diseases doctors from both the public and private sectors.

This conclusion in the paper was based on a multi-centre study of 73 patients here.

Professor Leo Yee Sin, executive director of the NCID, said the study is robust and it is safe to generalise to the entire patient population: "Scientifically, I'm very confident that there is enough evidence that the person is no longer infectious after 11 days."

The only exceptions are patients with weakened immune systems, such as cancer patients receiving chemotherapy or people on immune suppressant drugs following a transplant. In them, the virus might remain viable for a longer period.

Dr Asok Kurup, who chairs the chapter in the academy, is equally confident about the results. The infectious diseases expert in private practice said: "Studies are still going on and we will get more data, but we will see the same thing as there is a great deal of science in this. So there is no need to wait."

The paper also refers to a "small but important study" in Germany of nine patients which found viral shedding from the throat and lung to be very high in the first week. But there was no more shedding by day eight.

When asked why it took three days longer in Singapore, Prof Leo said the researchers here were "very conservative and counted till the very last drop".

The researchers plan to publish the results in an international journal of repute.
 
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KNN even they were +ve by 3mths they would have leecovered unless they leecovered and reinfected KNN

Many who have recovered still test positive because remnants of the dead virus are being detected by the test.

You can read all about it at https://www.healthline.com/health-news/people-reinfected-with-covid-19-werent-infectious

Around the world, there have been several cases of people recovering from COVID-19 only to later test positive again and appear to have another infection.

Such cases have had doctors and researchers puzzling over whether recovered people continue to be contagious, and if they could get a second infection.
Now, new research published by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that recovered COVID-19 patients who test positive again aren’t infectious.

The study also found that most patients who recover have neutralizing antibodies — the type of antibody that confers immunity and protects people from getting sick again.

“This study addresses the question of whether patients who have recovered from COVID-19 are still infectious, and which is a question that has been troubling us for some time,” said Dr. Heidi J. Zapata, a Yale Medicine infectious disease doctor. “This study suggests that patients that are recovered are no longer contagious.”

The Korean study examined 285 patients who tested positive again for the new coronavirus after they recovered from COVID-19, which had been confirmed via a negative test result.

The researchers swabbed the patients and examined the viral material to determine whether it was still actively infectious.

The team was unable to isolate live viral material, indicating that the positive diagnostic tests were picking up dead virus particles.
 

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Many who have recovered still test positive because remnants of the dead virus are being detected by the test.

You can read all about it at https://www.healthline.com/health-news/people-reinfected-with-covid-19-werent-infectious

Around the world, there have been several cases of people recovering from COVID-19 only to later test positive again and appear to have another infection.

Such cases have had doctors and researchers puzzling over whether recovered people continue to be contagious, and if they could get a second infection.
Now, new research published by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that recovered COVID-19 patients who test positive again aren’t infectious.

The study also found that most patients who recover have neutralizing antibodies — the type of antibody that confers immunity and protects people from getting sick again.

“This study addresses the question of whether patients who have recovered from COVID-19 are still infectious, and which is a question that has been troubling us for some time,” said Dr. Heidi J. Zapata, a Yale Medicine infectious disease doctor. “This study suggests that patients that are recovered are no longer contagious.”

The Korean study examined 285 patients who tested positive again for the new coronavirus after they recovered from COVID-19, which had been confirmed via a negative test result.

The researchers swabbed the patients and examined the viral material to determine whether it was still actively infectious.

The team was unable to isolate live viral material, indicating that the positive diagnostic tests were picking up dead virus particles.
KNN if that's the case pap should send a task force volunteer preferably the culprit that caused this to happen to the dorm to mix with them and verified if they can be infected KNN once confirmed they can leelease all the fw KNN
 

Leongsam

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KNN if that's the case pap should send a task force volunteer preferably the culprit that caused this to happen to the dorm to mix with them and verified if they can be infected KNN once confirmed they can leelease all the fw KNN

It isn't a problem because the mortality rate is so low the virus is no big deal. You have to bear in mind the fact that although almost 50,000 have tested positive there are only 26 deaths in the last six months which is lower than the number of flu deaths in the same period.
 

sweetiepie

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It isn't a problem because the mortality rate is so low the virus is no big deal. You have to bear in mind the fact that although almost 50,000 have tested positive there are only 26 deaths in the last six months which is lower than the number of flu deaths in the same period.
It is indeed intriguing that the mortality is stopped at 26 even the community cases is ongoing KNN hopefully it no nonger poses threats to the vulnerables rike the earlier stage KNN
 
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