Originally Posted by
Excargodog
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Utter nonsense. How would anyone KNOW about decade long latency in an organism that’s only been studied for six months?
Latent viral infections in humans include herpes simplex, varicella zoster, Epstein-Barr, human cytomegalovirus, adenovirus, and Kaposi's sarcoma. Granted, those are DNA viruses and not RNA viruses, but even Kuru and CJD can exhibit latency, and they aren’t even viruses, just prions. No reason to think it couldn't occur with coronavirus. And certainly no reason to rule it out so soon.
And indeed, researchers are actively considering the possibility:
https://medium.com/microbial-instinc...s-7b305fcfe9a8
https://www.self.com/story/coronavirus-reinfection
And Mouse Hepatitis virus, which IS a coronavirus, has been shown to be capable of going dormant with subsequent reactivating.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmi...aft=collection
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4344757/
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...ome_in_AJ_Mice
At this time there is no evidence of latency. Yes a decade later this could be proven different. But, with this genome, it's just not predicted. None of the colleagues I work with are tuned to this. We are all in agreement of reinfection vs relapse at the moment.
Dr.
Muhammad Yousuf highlights the summary below.
Current clinical evidence is highly in the two articles. Note in the first article (1) that HCWs who had clinical recovery did not transmit the disease to contacts despite positive RT-PCR tests.
Study (2), patients who had clinically recovered but showed positive RNA based RT-PCR tests did not transmit COVID-19 by donating plasma that was transfused to other recipients.
This indicates that SARS-CoV-2 virus latency or reactivation is more of a hype than a reality and viral RNA in clinically recovered patient is inactive viral litter or garbage, not an active virus.
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Article https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339890462_Post-discharge_surveillance_and_positive_virus_detectio n_in_two_medical_staff_recovered_from_coronavirus_ disease_2019_COVID-19_China_January_to_February_2020
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Article https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341583584_Coronavirus_Disease_2019_Test_Results_Af ter_Clinical_Recovery_and_Hospital_Discharge_Among _Patients_in_China