This was forwarded to me via social media. I would love to credit the author but I do not know who it is. It encapsulates the current understanding of Covid-19 so well that I thought everyone would enjoy reading it…

For those of you who are still confused, these are the rules for covid 19:

1. Basically, you can't leave the house for any reason, but if you have to, then you can.

2. Masks are useless, but maybe you have to wear one, it can save you, it is useless, but maybe it is mandatory as well.

3. Stores are closed, except those that are open.

4. You should not go to hospitals unless you have to go there. Same applies to doctors, you should only go there in case of emergency, provided you are not too sick.

5. This virus is deadly but still not too scary, except that sometimes it actually leads to a global disaster.

6. Gloves won't help, but they can still help.

7. Everyone needs to stay HOME, but it's important to GO OUT.

8. There is no shortage of groceries in the supermarket, but there are many things missing when you go there in the evening, but not in the morning. Sometimes.

9. The virus has no effect on children except those it affects.

10. Animals are not affected, but there is still a cat that tested positive in Belgium in February when no one had been tested, plus a few tigers here and there…

11. You will have many symptoms when you are sick, but you can also get sick without symptoms, have symptoms without being sick, or be contagious without having symptoms. Oh, my God.

12. In order not to get sick, you have to eat well and exercise, but eat whatever you have on hand because it's better not to go out, well, but no…

13. It's better to get some fresh air, but you get looked at very wrong when you get some fresh air, and most importantly, you don't go to parks or walk. But don’t sit down, except that you can do that now if you are old, but not for too long or if you are pregnant (but not too old).

14. You can't go to retirement homes, but you have to take care of the elderly and bring them food and medication.

15. If you are sick, you can't go out, but you can go to the pharmacy.

16. You can get restaurant food delivered to the house, which may have been prepared by people who didn't wear masks or gloves. But you have to have your groceries decontaminated outside for 3 hours. Pizza too?

17. Every disturbing article or disturbing interview starts with " I don't want to trigger panic, but…"

18. You can't see your older mother or grandmother, but you can take a taxi and meet an older taxi driver.

19. You can walk around with a friend but not with your family if they don't live under the same roof.

20. You are safe if you maintain the appropriate social distance, but you can’t go out with friends or strangers at the safe social distance.

21. The virus remains active on different surfaces for two hours, no, four, no, six, no, we didn't say hours, maybe days? But it takes a damp environment. Oh no, not necessarily.

22. The virus stays in the air - well no, or yes, maybe, especially in a closed room, in one hour a sick person can infect ten, so if it falls, all our children were already infected at school before it was closed. But remember, if you stay at the recommended social distance, however in certain circumstances you should maintain a greater distance, which, studies show, the virus can travel further, maybe.

23. We count the number of deaths but we don't know how many people are infected as we have only tested so far those who were "almost dead" to find out if that's what they will die of…

24. We have no treatment, except that there may be one that apparently is not dangerous unless you take too much (which is the case with all medications). Orange man bad.

25. We should stay locked up until the virus disappears, but it will only disappear if we achieve collective immunity, so when it circulates… but wait...we must no longer be locked up for that?

Well, two reports have been published related to its reactivation. I am sharing one of them, I have lost other report's link.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/japanese-woman-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-for-second-time

Hi

Please see the attached article:

Article Clinical characteristics of severe acute respiratory syndrom...

Regards

Thanks Anwar, on the right lines but, unfortunately, it is the same article I posted.

Otherwise, all reports seem non-scientific (as illustrated by Rajkumar and Sana) - surely, there must be be sources of more robust evidence.

Dominic Trépel I am apologize for this mistake. Honestly, I didn't noticed your posted article,

I only focused on your question.

Best Regards

Anwar, no problem at all. I am just really surprised that more people cannot point to active research on this important topic (it strikes me it is simply that it is not being published).

So, it is the grey literature at present that seems to give the most insights. For example, in the absence of China reporting the data, Reuters indicate having directly contacted hospital in china (see link).

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-patients-ins/recovered-almost-chinas-early-patients-unable-to-shed-coronavirus-idUSKCN2240H

So to revise this discussion a little, ideally please:

1) share any publications on this topic anyone identifies, but failing that;

2) post references to emerging data (such as Reuters) even it more mainstream media.@

Article Risk of reactivation or reinfection of novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

I read with great interest the article by Cheng et al.1 in which they tried to introduce the first confirmed case of novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) in Taiwan and described her self-recovery process. Joob et al. expressed their concerns about the infection that remains under-detected with self-recovery assumptions in another correspondence paper.2 In a letter to the editor paper that later published in the journal of Formosan medical association, Cheng et al.3 confirmed that negative results have been obtained four times from sputum and throat and also urine in this patient. Due to the expansion of the COVID-19 epidemy in different parts of the world, more and more cases are getting infected and of course, many people will be recovering from this viral infection as today April 15 in Taiwan, only 6 deaths have been reported out of 395 cases and 137 patients with confirmed infection have been released from the isolation.4So, it is very important to be sure about the negative cases to be truly negative. Another concern is the reactivation of cases that got the infection, recovered and left isolation. This issue has been brought to the public attention as on April 13, South Korea reported that 116 recovered cases of COVID-19 has been found positive again.5 As Korean approach to mark a patient as negative is two negative samples in within 24 h6 more precautions seem to be needed to be sure a patient had truly recovered from COVID-19 or may not reactivate again after recovery.

Is any update about this topic??