Coronavirus: USA, the positives exceed 5.9 million. First case of reinfection

2020-08-29T08:13:31.394Z

Coronavirus cases in the United States have exceeded the 5.9 million threshold: this is what emerges from the counts of Johns Hopkins University, which in the last 24 hours has registered 44,231 new infections, a figure that brings the total from the beginning of the pandemic to share 5,917,439. At the same time, an additional 880 deaths were reported, resulting in an overall death toll of at least 181,773. First case of reinfection in the United States A 25-year-old from the State of Nevada who had contracted the coronavirus and then was cured has become ill again: this is the first case of reinfection ever documented in the United States. According to CNN, genetic tests conducted by the University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine and the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory indicate that the young man contracted two different strains of the coronavirus. The patient had tested positive for the first turn the sip April after having accused sore throat, cough, headache, nausea and diarrhea. He then improved towards the end of the month and later tested negative on two swabs. The young man had no symptoms for about a month, but on May 31 he began to feel unwell again - with the same symptoms as the previous month - and five days later he was hospitalized with respiratory failure and was back again. positive result. The Nevada researchers analyzed the genetic material taken from both coronavirus samples and the result indicates that they are two distinct viral infections. As is known, the world's first case of coronavirus reinfection certified by genetic testing emerged just a few days ago and involved a 33-year-old from Hong Kong who was struck four months later by two distinct strains of the SarsCov2 virus.