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==<span id="recovered">Recovered patients testing positive</span>== Lan et al (2020) identified a group of 4 recovered patients who continued to test positive for COVID-19 after recovery; suggesting that they may still be infectious.<ref name="Lan2020">{{Cite journal | last = Lan | first = Lan | last2 = Xu | first2 = Dan | last3 = Ye | first3 = Guangming | last4 = Xia | first4 = Chen | last5 = Wang | first5 = Shaokang | last6 = Li | first6 = Yirong | last7 = Xu | first7 = Haibo | date = 2020-02-27 | title = Positive RT-PCR Test Results in Patients Recovered From COVID-19 | url = https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762452 | journal = JAMA|language=en|doi=10.1001/jama.2020.2783}}</ref> It is not known whether patients who have recovered may be reinfected later, or whether those who later needed treatment actually relapsed, or if recovered patients who later test positive do so because of issues with the diagnostic test's accuracy.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/covid-19-reinfection/ | title = Can People Who Recover from COVID-19 Become Reinfected? | website = Snopes.com|language=en-US | access-date = 2020-03-26}}</ref> Another study found group of 5 recovered patients were found to have reactivated COVID-19.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Ye | first = Guangming | last2 = Pan | first2 = Zhenyu | last3 = Pan | first3 = Yunbao | last4 = Deng | first4 = Qiaoling | last5 = Chen | first5 = Liangjun | last6 = Li | first6 = Jin | last7 = Li | first7 = Yirong | last8 = Wang | first8 = Xinghuan | date = 2020-03-11 | title = Clinical characteristics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 reactivation | url =https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(20)30114-6/abstract | journal = Journal of Infection|language=English | volume = 0 | issue = 0|doi=10.1016/j.jinf.2020.03.001|issn=0163-4453|pmid=32171867}}</ref>
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