By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas TX
There is considerable attention on the potential to be infected a second or third or fourth time with SARS-CoV-2 and be hospitalized over and over again with COVID-19. Thankfully, at over 110 million cases worldwide, we have not seen thousands of rehospitalizations. In fact, reports of possible recurrence are very rare, yet are used as public health rationale for COVID-19 recovered patients to undergo vaccination with its intendant risks including death.
A recent case from France reported that a 58-year-old man had a brief illness with a positive SARS-CoV-2 nasal PCR test in September 2020 and then was infected with the South African variant 501Y.V2 strain in January 2021 and was hospitalized and required mechanical ventilation.[1] Although details are not given, when the nasal PCR test is run at cycle thresholds >35 ct, the test picks up pieces of RNA in the nasal secretions from influenza and other viral fragments. Since the patient is 58 and has asthma, the September illness was almost certainly not COVID-19, since in a man his age and with asthma COVID-19 will last for 14 to 30 days or more. His first and real COVID-19 illness occurred in January 2021.
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