Pls I've used my dictionary then compare and relate to the case of Covid-19, but they are different, if u understand what I'm saying u should explain to me better.
why is the world using the word RECOVERED and not CURED to case of treated Coronavirus patients.

What is the
difference between RECOVER
(ED) & CURE(D)?

Recovered means the person no longer shows symptoms of the virus. Cure means the person has no trace of the virus(or causative organism) in his system again. That's putting it simply. Compare with HIV where a person recovers from the symptoms after being placed on HAARTs but is not cured as the symptoms can return if he stops using them. In the same vain, there are cures for tb, malaria, typhoid etc and people also recover from them as well. There is still no cure for HIV.

Cured is stopping a disease or illness entirely

Google says Recovered is the softer “act of regaining or returning towards a normal or healthy state.”

In other words, to be cured of a disease would mean restored to a condition in which it no longer affects you whatsoever

According to world record na only small pox dem don eradicate or cured completely . If not the word cured would have been useless.

U recover from illness or disease because u can still be re-infected.

But if u have a disease and after treatment, u never had it again. That means its not reoccurring and u have been cured.

DominusPrime:
Recovered means the person no longer shows symptoms of the virus. Cure means the person has no trace of the virus(or causative organism) in his system again. That's putting it simply. Compare with HIV where a person recovers from the symptoms after being placed on HAARTs but is not cured as the symptoms can return if he stops using them. In the same vain, there are cures for tb, malaria, typhoid etc and people also recover from them as well. There is still no cure for HIV.

are you in this case insinuating that discharged covid-19 patients could still exhibit the symptoms after a while since they were not cured?

and can it still be transmitted from them?

DominusPrime:
Recovered means the person no longer shows symptoms of the virus. Cure means the person has no trace of the virus(or causative organism) in his system again. That's putting it simply. Compare with HIV where a person recovers from the symptoms after being placed on HAARTs but is not cured as the symptoms can return if he stops using them. In the same vain, there are cures for tb, malaria, typhoid etc and people also recover from them as well. There is still no cure for HIV.

1.does that mean that people who I've also recovered from covid19 are still on drugs till the cure is found...
2. ''Recovered means the person no longer shows symptoms of the virus'' does this mean people who show no symptoms can't undergo treatment but still have the virus...ur definition is confusing, because ur definition to RECOVER is nearest to that of CURE

Eazie351:


are you in this case insinuating that discharged covid-19 patients could still exhibit the symptoms after a while since they were not cured?

and can it still be transmitted from them?

Yes according to WHO, reinfection and transmission from a previously infected patient is still considered a possibility, though more studies are ongoing to see if the body does produce antibodies that give lifelong protection. That's the info i have as at the last time I checked.

Ugaboy:


1.does that mean that people who I've also recovered from covid19 are still on drugs till the cure is found...
2. ''Recovered means the person no longer shows symptoms of the virus'' does this mean people who show no symptoms can't undergo treatment but still have the virus...ur definition is confusing, because ur definition to RECOVER is nearest to that of CURE

1. No they are not. They have recovered from the virus.
2. I get your confusion now. A cure for a disease would mean a substance that when taken into the body will directly or indirectly destroy the invading pathogen.

Now the word 'cure' can have contextual meaning as a noun and a verb. Consider these two statements;
A. A cure for Covid 19 has been found.
This implies a substance(noun)
B. At the NCDC centres they can cure you of the Covid 19.
This implies a verb.
A and B are the same words with 2 different meanings. Using this for HIV, no one has been able to find a cure(noun) for it and there is currently no way to cure(verb, remember that it's the symptoms and viral load that are managed, the virus is still present) a person of HIV. If this does not help then I have no better way to simplify it.

DominusPrime:

1. No they are not. They have recovered from the virus.
2. I get your confusion now. A cure for a disease would mean a substance that when taken into the body will directly or indirectly destroy the invading pathogen.

Now the word 'cure' can have contextual meaning as a noun and a verb. Consider these two statements;
A. A cure for Covid 19 has been found.
This implies a substance(noun)
B. At the NCDC centres they can cure you of the Covid 19.
This implies a verb.
A and B are the same words with 2 different meanings. Using this for HIV, no one has been able to find a cure(noun) for it and there is currently no way to cure(verb, remember that it's the symptoms and viral load that are managed, the virus is still present) a person of HIV. If this does not help then I have no better way to simplify it.

i got ur point, thanks.