2/ It's unclear from this report if this is truly "reactivation." The authors mention that patients had symptoms, but it's unclear if these are new symptoms or persistent symptoms.
Is this really reactivation? Or just persistent infection? Or re-infection?
3/ It's all a little unclear, but it will be interesting to see more data
A positive PCR test just detects viral nucleic acid; it doesn't confirm actual live, replicating virus is still present. We don't know if these patients are still infectious (& they're likely not)
4/ I'm interested to know what others think about this paper. I'm not too impressed. I don't think we know much more than we previously did based on this data.
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1/ Your team just saw a patient with syphilis, and you're ready to teach, but:
Resident #1: on week 2 of their rotation
👉 Has already seen 2 patients w/ syphilis
Resident #2: started today
👉 Hasn't seen a single patient with syphilis
What should you do now?
2/ Unfortunately, learners on our team may miss teaching that occurs during the rotation for multiple reasons.
3/ As @VarunPhadke2 previously pointed out, all learners on the team are usually not present all day, every day for the entire time we are on clinical services.