It’s still early days in figuring out how coronavirus impacts people, but a new study suggests that people could remain infected for over a week after their symptoms resolve.
As the New York Post reports, a small study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine showed that half of the people who tested positive for the virus were still carriers for up to eight days after their symptoms end and could potentially spread the disease to other people.
The study involved 16 patients in Beijing who were classified as having a mild case of the COVID-19 disease.
Dr. Lokesh Sharma from the Yale School of Medicine said that some of those patients, who were treated in a hospital between January 28 and February 9, showed evidence of carrying the virus for an average of two-and-a-half-days.
“The most significant finding from our study is that half of the patients kept shedding the virus even after resolution of their symptoms,” he said.
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