geoffrey modest medical blogs

blog from 4/1/20 A recent study from China raised the potential continued infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 from stool and sputum up to 39 days after pharyngeal samples were negative (see  covid pos sputum feces longterm AIM2020  in dropbox, or doi:10.7326/M20-0991 )   Details: -- 133 patients who were admitted to the hospital with documented Covid-19 infection, over a 5 week period -- 22 of these patients had an initial or follow-up positive sputum or fecal sample for  SARS-CoV-2 while having  negative follow-up pharyngeal samples, per protocol below     -- 545 specimens were collected from these 22 patients: 209 pharyngeal swabs, 262 sputum samples, and 74 feces samples     -- 18 of these patients were 15-65 years old, 14 male, 11 had a history of the travel or exposure to an individual from Hubei province in the past month.     -- 17 had no coexisting condition (of the other 5, 4 had hypertension, 2 diabetes, 1 COPD: ie, none had signfic...

A recent study from China raised the potential continued infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 from stool and sputum up to 39 days after pharyngeal samples were negative (see  covid pos sputum feces longterm AIM2020  in dropbox, or doi:10.7326/M20-0991 ) Details: -- 133 patients who were admitted to the hospital with documented Covid-19 infection, over a 5 week period -- 22 of these patients had an initial or follow-up positive sputum or fecal sample for  SARS-CoV-2 while having  negative follow-up pharyngeal samples, per protocol below     -- 545 specimens were collected from these 22 patients: 209 pharyngeal swabs, 262 sputum samples, and 74 feces samples     -- 18 of these patients were 15-65 years old, 14 male, 11 had a history of the travel or exposure to an individual from Hubei province in the past month.     -- 17 had no coexisting condition (of the other 5, 4 had hypertension, 2 diabetes, 1 COPD: ie, none had signficant immu...