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cord-294828-yemg28ds	Jameel, Tahir	Persistence of Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Positivity in COVID-19 Recovered Patients: A Call for Revised Hospital Discharge Criteria	2020-07-07		.txt	text/plain	1083	67	52	title: Persistence of Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Positivity in COVID-19 Recovered Patients: A Call for Revised Hospital Discharge Criteria The hospital discharge criteria for COVID-19 patients upon recovery includes the absence of respiratory symptoms, afebrile for the last three days, radiological improvement of chest exudates (by X-ray or CT scan), and two upper respiratory tract samples negative for viral RNA in RT-PCR assay, collected at the interval of at least 24 hours. WHO, in the latest newsletter "criteria for releasing COVID-19 patients from insolation," advised not to keep on waiting for RT-PCR to become negative; instead, the decision should be based on clinical and essential laboratory investigation like the presence of neutralizing antibodies. When the COVID-19 patient recovers, the discharge criteria from the hospital are meticulous, and the patient may wait a long time to be released from isolation because of the positive RT-PCR assay.	./cache/cord-294828-yemg28ds.txt	./txt/cord-294828-yemg28ds.txt