More positive news out of Germany... Drosten is the top virologist who co-discovered SARS, created the first COVID PCR tests in January of this year, has a podcast with more than a million listeners, and is Mrs Merkel's closest advisor on the COVID crisis. He had a bit of a fit in May because they disagreed about opening Germany, so he went back to his lab at the Charité and hasn't really emerged until today. Turns out he only took a two week holiday, and has been very busy indeed....
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...avirus-a-8e4bbfcb-9176-41ba-80df-3fedd31f2e94
And for our Canadian posters, Mr Trudeau was not far off the mark with his 'speaking moistly' as the English translation from Drosten comes as "the wet pronunciation"
"After five days the infectivity is actually over"
According to the virologist, the quarantine period should be reduced from 14 to 5 days. With this proposal, he went "to the pain limit of epidemiology," said Drosten. "That is, let's say, a steep thesis that one says that after five days the infectivity is actually over." But the consideration is: "What can you do in reality so that you don't have a de facto lockdown?", He explained. "It is of no use if you have all kinds of school classes and all kinds of workplaces under quarantine for weeks." Drosten also suggested that the five days should not be "wasted" on tests, but rather only after the end of the test to test whether those affected were infected and were still infectious.
The cases of secondary infections
"This is all just attention-grabbing," said Drosten about a study carried out with extensive public relations work in Hong Kong on the world's first proven re-infection with the corona virus . Such cases are "rarities". "At the moment it is difficult to say how many patients this will affect," said Drosten about the re-infection. Epidemiologically, however, it will probably not be of any consequence for the spread of the virus. "That does not describe the medical reality and the normal case." The case does not mean that a vaccination will not work.
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...avirus-a-8e4bbfcb-9176-41ba-80df-3fedd31f2e94
And for our Canadian posters, Mr Trudeau was not far off the mark with his 'speaking moistly' as the English translation from Drosten comes as "the wet pronunciation"