Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/Pe8zlg-Y_sc   Once infected with the coronavirus, a patient could shed live and infectious virus for nearly 3 weeks.  Vietnamese researchers studied a 73 year old man admitted with a dry cough and difficulty breathing and diagnosed with a CoVid19 pneumonia.   Over an 8 day period, he improved clinically with what turned out to be a mild case.  Even so, longitudinal testing of his throat and gastrointestinal tract revealed persistently positive CoVid19 RT-PCR tests.  His throat tests finally turned negative by hospital day 11- illness day 16.  His rectal swabs remained positive until hospital day 18 - illness day 23.   Many of us will become infected.  Be prepared for a long quarantine.    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.07.20032052v1.full.pdf   #covid19 #coronavirus #shedding #quarantine