Coronavirus: It Looks Like Asymptomatic Carriers Can Infect Others Indefinitely. All the Lockdowns are for Nothing. It’s Herd Immunity or Die.
A 23-year-old in Italy being treated for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus continues to test positive, despite two months of quarantine and continual swabs… Dobroiu was discharged from the hospital on March 6 and returned home where she remained in quarantine under the country’s nationwide lockdown.
Being asymptomatic, she still tests positive and told local media she was thankful the disease has not progressed. “But doctors have told me that I am still a carrier of the virus and contagious,” she said
"After four days she was fine, but the swabs are still positive," infectious disease specialist Luciano Attard told local media. "As far as we know, no one else in Italy has remained positive for so long. Usually, positivity results do not last for more than four weeks." Dobroiu "had not been subjected to any therapy," Attard said.
Dobroiu was discharged from the hospital on March 6 and returned home where she remained in quarantine under the country's nationwide lockdown.
"After 57 days, here is the new result," Dobroiu, who lives, works, and studies in Bologna, wrote on Facebook. "Well, it's not new because it has never changed. ... Nothing is changing at all and it scares me a little today."
Being asymptomatic, she still tests positive and told local media she was thankful the disease has not progressed. "But doctors have told me that I am still a carrier of the virus and contagious," she said.
https://www.newsweek.com/italian-woman-tests-positive-covid-19-after-60-days-quarantine-swabbing-1500202
This was the problem in February that should have caused travel shutdowns between all countries - it was appearance of asymptomatic carriers in Italy. Because we didn't have good information coming out of China we had to rely on what happened in other countries. The lack of information coming out of China, and lack of action from the WHO, left borders open much longer than they should have been. Action could have been taken in January if there had been a free flow of information as opposed to a cover-up. The virus had been active in China since mid November 2019.
[Posted at the SpookyWeather blog, April 30, 2020.]
