Interesting Links for 15-03-2020

[andrewducker]

Which precautions are you taking? (I'm going with the hazmat suit)

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Japan confirms first case of person re-infected with coronavirus

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Elderly could be quarantined for four months in 'wartime-style' mobilisation to combat coronavirus

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Iceland radically cut teenage drug use

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Hurray for Tesco spreading infection

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If we have to self isolate I'm definitely rewatching the extended Hobbit movies

Although I could do without some of the humour
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Comments

[jjhunter]

Some additional context on that reinfection article - testing positive for coronavirus after cessation of symptoms is emphatically not the same as still being contagious with coronavirus - there's some recent papers coming out (will need to dig up the citations later) indicating that, for mild cases, you're contagious near the end of the incubation period through day 7-8 of symptoms, then after that the shed viral load is not infectious; however, the patient will continue to test positive for coronavirus for weeks after.

I have to wonder whether 'reinfection' here is genuine reinfection, or an instance of coinfection with, say, pneumonia - patient still testing positive for coronavirus while having severe symptoms from other pathogen.