Study: Evidence of COVID-19 virus found in 16% of semen samplesA study yesterday in JAMA Network Open is the first to demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is detectable in the semen of recovered and actively infected men, but it does not prove that the virus can be sexually transmitted."If it could be proved that SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted sexually in future studies, sexual transmission might be a critical part of the prevention of transmission, especially considering the fact that SARS-CoV-2 was detected in the semen of recovering patients," the authors write.The study was based on 38 semen samples collected from China in a small cohort study of male patients who currently had or recovered from COVID-19.