Communicable period for coronavirus may continue after patients recover: Book

While infected people sneezing, coughing and sniffling can spre COVID-19, it appears that communicable period for coronavirus can start before a person falls sick and may even continue after y apparently recover, says a new book.

"A person may get infected but may t fall sick for several days and may appear healthy. se apparently healthy people need to be monitored t only for ir own safety, but also to prevent transmission of infection to ors," say three authors who are medical experts.

While sick people sneezing, coughing, sniffling and excreting out virus cause most coronavirus infections, it appears communicable period for coronavirus can start before a person falls sick and may even continue after y apparently recover, y say.

" Coronavirus: What You Need to Kw about Global Pandemic" is written by internal medicine specialist Dr Swapneil Parikh, clinical psychologist Maherra Desai, and neuropsychiatrist Dr Rajesh M Parikh and is published by Ebury Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

publishing house said for first time it is releasing a superle title book in e-format before its subsequent launch in physical form in market. According to authors, current estimates of incubation period of COVID-19 range from one to 14 days, with most cases occurring approximately five to six days after exposure.

"refore, exposed individuals are quarantined for two weeks from exposure ( maximum incubation time). incubation period explains why people exposed to infection on a plane don't fall sick right away. "y may wind up in countries all over world while y are still in incubation period. y may infect many or people in ir destination countries," book says.

incubation period les us to ar important concept: contact tracing, authors say. "Contact tracing needs to be done meticulously; a single missed contact can spre disease. Contact tracing and disease control can be difficult in example of infection spreing on a plane because passengers may have reached different countries and an infection can rapidly spre across world," y assert.

According to authors, some sick people act as super-spreers, infecting a large number of or people, but recent evidence proves that coronavirus can also be transmitted by apparently healthy people.

"se infected people appear healthy; y are asymptomatic, but y can still infect ors. Children get infected but are asymptomatic or have very mild disease, but y can spre infection to ir vulnerable grandparents," y say.

COVID-19 has demonstrated a darker side of threats to health; inequality in healthcare access results in impoverished bearing brunt of disease, book says.

"COVID-19 is likely to overwhelm world's impoverished countries and people, but that is hardly only threat y face. While we, somewhat leisurely, speculate about effects of this dangerous new virus, re are billions of people who worry about diseases far long ago banished from more privileged lives," it says.

authors feel that while battle against COVID-19 rs on, it is likely that many will perish silently, unattended and forgotten, due to preventable and treatable diseases. "While we worry about COVID-19, re are mors dying in childbirth, children dying for want of food and clean water, and poor die kwing that re is a cure y can't afford," y say. 

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