Transmission risk of patients with COVID-19 meeting discharge criteria should be interpreted with caution.

Transmission risk of patients with COVID-19 meeting discharge criteria should be interpreted with caution. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2020 May;21(5):408-410 Authors: Su JW, Wu WR, Lang GJ, Zhao H, Sheng JF Abstract As of Apr. 22, 2020, the World Health Organization (2020) has reported over 2.4 million confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients and 169 151 deaths. Recent articles have uncovered genomic characteristics and clinical features of COVID-19 (Chan et al., 2020; Chang et al., 2020; Guan et al., 2020; Zhu et al., 2020), while our understanding of COVID-19 is still limited. As suggested by guidelines promoted by the General Office of National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China (2020) (from Versions 1 to 6), discharged standards for COVID-19 were still dependent on viral real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests of respiratory specimens, showing that recovered COVID-19 patients with twice negative RT-PCR could meet discharge criteria. Here, we examined two cases in which nucleic acid test results were inconsistent with clinical and radiological findings, leading to suboptimal care. PMID: 32425008 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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