Startling discovery reveals an asymptomatic coronavirus patient was contagious for 70 days

[Chris Smith]

• Researchers discovered a COVID-19 patient who shed the novel coronavirus for 70 days without showing any symptoms during the period.
• The patient suffered from a form of leukemia, which might explain why the immune system could not mount a proper response that would have cleared the virus.
• Immunosuppressed patients risk infections like COVID-19 and may experience unique complications because they have a harder time fighting pathogens.

A large proportion of the people who contract the novel coronavirus get an asymptomatic version of COVID-19. Crucially, experts say that asymptomatic people do not spread the virus as much as people who exhibit symptoms. But the COVID-19 patients who do start showing symptoms are infectious a few days before the onset of symptoms. They can spread the illness by shedding the virus during the presymptomatic phase of the illness, at a time they might think they’re perfectly healthy. But as COVID-19 recovery progresses, patients stop shedding the virus, with experts saying that people with mild to moderate illness will stop shedding the virus 8-9 days after the onset of symptoms.

A new study now says there’s a particular category of patients who might spread the illness a lot longer than that, without ever showing any symptoms. The researchers found a patient who tested positive for the novel coronavirus for up to 105 days and was still infectious 70 days after the first positive test.

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