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DDC: Risk of second wave of infections low as new patients carried 'dead' Covid-19 cells


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the risk of a second wave of infections was still low as the two had a small amount of genetic virus material, meaning the virus was "dead" and could not be transmitted to others.

I tend to disagree the virus is "dead" in the infected woman until further research clearly confirms otherwise. If the woman cleared quarantine 2 months before the test, this is perhaps another example of viral latency. A latent viral infection occurs when the virus is present within an infected cell but dormant and not multiplying. In a latent virus, the entire viral genome is present, and infectious virus can be produced if latency ends and the infections becomes active.

 

The latent virus may integrate into the human genome – as does HIV, for example – or exist in the nucleus as a self-replicating piece of DNA called an episome. A latent virus can reactivate and produce infectious viruses, and this can occur months to decades after the initial infection.

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