Doctors Worried About Re-diagnosis Of Corona Virus In Dozens Of Healthy People
In the first decade of April, authorities in South Korea revealed that the virus had been confirmed again after several patients with the coronavirus recovered .
In Korea, most of these cases were of mild severity, but authorities have not yet been able to explain why this is happening.
And now it has been revealed that this is happening not only in South Korea but also in China, and that healthy patients are being re-isolated upon confirmation of the virus.
According to news agency Reuters, Dave Ming Jun had arrived wearing protective clothing to 50 years old man of Wuhan suburb and introduced himself as a psychological expert, he wept bitterly.
"I can't stand it anymore," the man said.
The man was diagnosed with coronavirus in early February and recovered.
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But now, about two months later, after treatment in two hospitals, he has been transferred to a quarantine center because the virus has been re-confirmed.
Why did this happen? This question has puzzled doctors who have previously managed to slow the spread of the coronavirus epidemic across China.
The new virus first began spreading in December in the Chinese city of Wuhan, and doctors there say there is now an increase in the number of cases in which people have previously recovered from the virus but without it. Symptomatic tests confirmed the virus again.
Surprisingly, after these patients recovered, the results of all the tests showed that the virus was no longer present in the body, but after several weeks or months, re-tests confirmed the presence of coronavirus, in some cases. This is happening after 70 days, most of them are over 50 to 60 years old.
Globally, there is concern about re-diagnosing and spreading the virus once people have recovered, as most countries want to end the lockdown and restore economic activity after the virus has slowed down.
People around the world are now being instructed to stay away from the virus for up to 14 days.
Chinese medical officials say it has not yet been confirmed that people who have been re-diagnosed with the virus are making other people sick.
China has not yet released figures on how many people have been re-confirmed, but other media reports and Reuter's hospital disclosures indicate that the number is in the dozens.
The virus has been re-confirmed in 1,000 people in South Korea over a four-week period, and medical officials in Italy say coronavirus patients could be re-confirmed in a month's time.
Because it is not yet known if these patients are contagious, medical experts in Wuhan are keeping them in isolation for a longer period of time.
Zheng Dengo, president of Wuhan's Jinyintan Hospital, said medical officials realized the isolation was too high, especially when it was proven that patients were not affecting others, but that it was better for public safety at the moment.
He explained that this was the most important issue facing the hospital at the moment and that psychiatrists such as Dave Ming Jun could help reduce patients' emotional stress.
Chinese doctors say the new discovery suggests that little is known about COVID 19 and that it can affect different people in a number of ways.
Yuan Yufeng, vice president of Wuhan's Zongnan Hospital, told Reuters he was aware of a case in which the virus was re-confirmed 70 days later.
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"We have never seen anything like this during the stork epidemic," he said.
In China, patients are discharged from the hospital when their 2 tests are negative and now some doctors say that this standard should be increased to 3 or more tests.
Wang Jiuqiang, director of Peking University First Hospital, which is part of the China National Health Commission, said the majority of such patients did not show symptoms and very few deteriorated.
"The new coronavirus is a new type of virus, little is known about it," said Guo Yoonhong, another official with the National Health Commission.
Experts and doctors are finding it difficult to explain why the virus behaves differently in these people.
Some believe that the virus was re-confirmed in these patients because they were re-infected, which could shatter countries' expectations that once infected with code 19, they would be able to resist recovery. Vali antibodies are made in the body that prevents you from getting sick again.
Zhao Yan, director of emergency medicine at Wuhan's Zongnan Hospital, expressed skepticism about being infected again but said he had no evidence to disprove it.
Ji Ong-on-kiong, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a briefing a few weeks ago that patients were not infected again but that the virus may have reactivated.
According to other South Korean and Chinese experts, part of the virus may be present in patients' body systems that are not contagious or dangerous to the patient or others.
However, there is no evidence to substantiate this claim.
Yuan Yufeng, vice president of Zong Nan Hospital, said that even if antibodies were made inside the patient, it did not guarantee that the virus was free.
He said some patients had high levels of antibodies but tested positive again, "meaning the virus and the body are still fighting."
Patients' mental health is being affected by repeated positive tests, and Dave Mingjun has set up a therapy hotline and provided the news agency with an opportunity to meet with those affected again.
One person said that since the third week of February, he has had 10 tests, some of which have been negative but most of the time the virus has been confirmed.
He said: "I am feeling well and there are no symptoms, but the virus was confirmed when I checked, the test was positive when I did it again, what is the problem with this virus?"
Such patients are being kept in quarantine centers for at least 28 days and are allowed to go if 2 tests are negative. These patients in isolation are also being paid by the government.
