South Korea Working to Determine Why 91 People were Reinfected with the Coronavirus
Before people begin panicking these cases are likely caused by inaccurate testing proclaiming them virus free. There has been many complaints about inaccurate tests from around the world:
More than 90 people who fully recovered from the novel coronavirus have tested positive for COVID-19 again, health authorities here said Friday.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said a total of 91 people had tested positive for the new coronavirus after they were released from quarantine.
KCDC Director-General Jeong Eun-kyeong said a viral test on such cases is currently under way, with the results expected at least two weeks later, unlike regular swab tests used to test for COVID-19 that shows results in a relatively shorter time.
Yonhap
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Even the best of the CORVID19 test kits promise up to 95% accuracy. There is no 100% accuracy tests. What’s happening is that it’s that 5 % inaccurate rate that is showing here. There’s really no mystery about this.
But what’s not clearly a mystery is why the US is having 2000 dead people per day. Just watch what Obama said in 2014, versus what Trump said in 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBVAnaHxHbM
I guess who you vote for can really make a difference between life and death. Rightwing Trumpeans unite!
Must be using test kits donated by benevolent Emperor Xi.
J6, you beat me to it.
If Obama had the government so well prepared for a pandemic then why was the CDC so incompetent in handling it? The Trump administration has recommended budget cuts across the government to include the CDC, but none of them were ever implemented. In fact the CDC’s funding grew under Trump:
The CDC had more funding under the Trump administration and yet could not get a simple thing like recommending people wear masks right. I believe once studies are done on this in the aftermath, scientists will conclude a major difference why populous cities like Seoul and Tokyo had such different outcomes than New York City is the wearing of masks that help mitigated the spread of the virus from people that did not know they had it.
OK GIKorea, I think your defense of Trump is not surprising considering his approval rating has gone up by 15% during the pandemic, despite the thousands of deaths, and despite the utter unpreparedness of the American healthcare system.
Let me ask you this then. Is there anything Trump could have done better, or is he perfect? Second question, if Obama was in power, do you think there will be more deaths than the daily average of 2000 dead that we’re seeing now?
Obama would not have stopped travel to and from hot zones (we know this because during the ebola breakout he did not stop travel to and from hot zones, and required no quarantine). So, if you understand how disease is spread the answer is more people would’ve been infected, and faster, under Obama.
Just to add (since I’m in the mod queue for some reason), it’s nice Obama had time to discuss hypotheticals like pandemics. Trump was too busy decreasing unemployment, increasing border security, negotiating better trade agreements and raising our economy into the best it has been in decades. All while fighting imaginary witch hunts against him.
Obama must not have been terribly concerned since he depleted our stockpile of PPE…but statements like “we need to catch it quickly and stop the spread” are helpful. Monty Python shares other similarly helpful commentary on “How to Do It”:
Noel: (Graham Chapman) Hello.
Jackie: (Eric Idle) Hello.
Alan: Well, last week we showed you how to be a gynaecologist. And this week on ‘How to Do It’ we’re going to learn how to play the flute, how to split the atom, how to construct box girder bridges and how to irrigate the Sahara and make vast new areas cultivatable, but first, here’s Jackie to tell you how to rid the world of all known diseases.
Jackie: Hello Alan.
Alan: Hello Jackie.
Jackie: Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvelous cure for something, and then, when the medical world really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there’ll never be diseases any more.
Alan: Thanks Jackie, that was great.
Noel: Fantastic!
@Korean Man, as I have told you before Trump’s mistake was letting the CDC handle the testing initially instead of reaching out to the private sector. The CDC then proceeded to screw up the testing roll out badly. It wasn’t until Trump reached out to the private sector that testing began to get ramped up and that was after he had to get through all the red-tape the FDA was laying out for the test kits. Based on the prior SARS experience in Korea, President Moon reached out much more quickly to private industry to ramp up testing quicker in Korea.
Masks is the other big mistake. Once again why did the CDC get something so simple as masks wrong that every Korean knows is the common sense thing to do in a pandemic? If Trump had gone against the CDC recommendations and demanded private industry testing and everyone wear masks you know the media would be bashing him for not listening to the “experts”. In their glee to bash Trump the media has hardly looked at why the CDC was so unprepared to react to this pandemic despite knowing it was coming and the increased funding they have received to prepare for it.