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05/29/2020 / By Ralph Flores

South Korea’s CDC says recovered coronavirus patients aren’t contagious, as country grapples with another surge of new cases

People who have tested positive again for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) after initially recovering from the disease are not infectious, suggests new data from health authorities in South Korea. The report, which the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) posted last Monday, also revealed that most recovered patients have antibodies that confer immunity from the […]

05/27/2020 / By Ralph Flores

South Korea says relapsed coronavirus cases are “testing flukes”

Health authorities in South Korea have found that people who tested positive for COVID-19 a second time had not passed the disease to others. This raises the idea that the suspected relapses were a testing fluke as opposed to a reemergence of an active infection. While the study is still in its preliminary stages – with […]

05/26/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

5 Sailors on Navy aircraft carrier test positive for coronavirus after initial recovery – sailors and people in contact with them evacuated

Five sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an American aircraft carrier, have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) for a second time. The USS Theodore Roosevelt has been stuck at port in Guam since late March, when the coronavirus first wreaked havoc upon the ship. Since then, over 4,000 of the 4,800 crew members […]

05/22/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Experts: “Mutated” virus involved in new coronavirus outbreak in northeast China

A new cluster of COVID-19 cases has emerged in the northeastern provinces of China’s Rust Belt region, with doctors noting that the virus involved in the new cases is behaving differently compared to the one first encountered in Wuhan late last year. According to Qiu Haibo, an expert in critical care medicine who is part […]

04/27/2020 / By Franz Walker

New coronavirus strain may be emerging and causing survivors to get REINFECTED

A doctor is warning that a new strain of the coronavirus may be emerging. Medical contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat raised the possibility in an interview with Fox News after reports from South Korea revealed that some patients, who had recovered from the disease, have tested positive again. Recovered patients are getting reinfected In South Korea, which has been lauded for its […]

04/20/2020 / By Isabelle Z.

Worries mount as coronavirus appears to disable the immune cells that fight it off, reactivating in some people

Coronavirus would be a bit less daunting if we could be sure that the people who have had it once won’t get it again, but that is increasingly appearing not to be the case with this illness. In fact, one study suggests that coronavirus has the power to disable the immune cells that fight infections, […]

04/12/2020 / By Ralph Flores

51 Recovered patients in South Korea test positive AGAIN for coronavirus

At least 51 patients in South Korea are confirmed to be positive again for coronavirus after leaving quarantine, said health officials this week. According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the patients were already given a clean bill of health following an earlier diagnosis for COVID-19, with the agency sending them home in batches between […]

04/07/2020 / By Tracey Watson

Can recovered COVID-19 patients still infect people? Chinese doctors report up to 10 percent of “recovered” patients still test positive

When it comes to COVID-19, the only thing we can really be sure of is that we don’t really know very much at all. Mortality rates, the R-0 value (the number of people each coronavirus patient will go on to infect), just how far we need to stand away from an infected person, whether or […]

04/01/2020 / By JD Heyes

Second wave of coronavirus lockdowns return to China, shattering narrative that Beijing “has it all under control”

By now, regular readers know from our reporting that the Communist Chinese government has been anything but transparent in providing factual details about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), how it spreads, how it infects, and — importantly — how lethal and widespread the virus has been. As early as March 1, Natural News reported that China’s […]

02/06/2020 / By JD Heyes

DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Health experts warn that people who have had the coronavirus can get it again even after they have recovered

Day by day, the more health experts and researchers encounter the coronavirus and try to unravel its riddles, they more they learn just how hearty — and dangerous — it is. As reported by Business Insider, health experts are now warning that even people who have already had the coronavirus can contract it again, which […]

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