This is not that. I had Covid a few weeks ago (tested positive) and had been testing negative for 9 days since recovery. I was being told I was "very likely still infectious" and wanted information on why.
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I think someone is misinterpreting current guidance. Infectivity is 48 hours before symptoms and up to 5 days (mild) or 10 days (severe) after symptom onset or a positive test. Severely immunocompromised people can be infectious past 20 days of onset. A negative test 9 days ago is not contagious.
Ah, finally someone who knows health care guide lines instead of just throwing links to articles from unreliable sources. It seems like we have very similar guidelines in both the US and Europe. I'm not a Dr or nurse, just an administrative worker in the NHS, but every patient has to go through me -
My kids tested positive for 14 days. If you have a positive test on a rapid test, you are still infectious. “Testing out” is a safer method than just counting days… that is, waiting until you register negative on a RAT
Oh good I got it before the price hike and be part of the pack of growing people who are rebounding with harsher symptoms. Step down this covid thing sucks. I’m a longhauler and I’m just trying to live. & watching folk harassing celebrities over masking (I mask when I leave my house) is not helping.
Stuff worked wonders for me. Day 1 and 2 of Covid I felt like boiled garbage. Then I started the Pax. The rest of it was "I have had worse hangovers."
Not a big fan of the runs and everything (including the inside of my mouth) tasting like I'd liked an uncoated asprin, but a minor price to pay.
It's definitely worth testing. When my roommate caught it he did not test negative until day 11, it can really vary. So counting X days is not always reliable.
According to a nurse I know who married me for some still unknown reason, with COVID-19, your degree of infectiousness goes down every day. She continued: after nine days, you would probably have to kiss someone to infect them.
Nurses & doctors are notorious for not knowing enough about COVID and for knowing wrong things. There are a few accurate & up to date free public sources.
There can be some reasons, and to tell exactly it would be needed to know the kind of test qmongst other things. One of the possibilities is that the tests are for a antibody type produced in the beginning of the infection. The kind of antibodies we produce During infections change, só...
The test could be only effective in telling if u're in the first state of covid infection.
Had immunology classes and we talked abt this specific kind of problem in uni.
If you have tested negative on rapids for 9 days straight, it is incredibly unlikely that you could be infectious. Rebounds do happen (even without pax) but typically 3-5 days after testing negative. *That being said* you could catch another strain & test positive again as soon as 14 days after.
And folks who have had COVID are now immunocompromised and therefore should take precautions per CDC guidance for high-risk individuals, which include masking up around others. Take care of yourself! ❤️
One of the 3 sources I absolutely trust - Vincent Racaniello’s “Office hours” livestream with Q & A they should take your Q or tell you it’s been answered many times & refer you to an earlier podcast or give you a short answer https://www.youtube.com/live/b09xnNJh2tU?si=73ndi16G7_r1QWP5
That claim was simply not true, even considering the unreliability of LFT tests and the possibility of rebound after Paxlovid. (I just went through all this myself.)
If you have no symptoms and have repeatedly tested negative, you cannot be infectious.
Agree too. Took plaxo last year, had a rebound then negative. I understand the fear but as being high risk, this conversation is totally paranoid. You are more contagious before then after guys ! I don’t
From what I read, you are very likely not even infectious during the rebound, even when testing positive. Still better to isolate, to be safe, but once you have negative tests two days in a row, you‘re fine.
I’ve been following the studies rather closely during most of the pandemic and even with wild type, I never heard it was common to be infectious although testing negative for days already.
Relapses also uncommon.
Probably not cost effective for a single person, but there are test kits which check for viral load not antigens. This is a really informative video about them and how they work/how to get them. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR7q4PRN/
Sorry @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com I was not clear why I was posting that.
I agree there's no reason to believe you would "likely" still be contagious, but if one wanted to know for sure these tests are extremely effective for exactly that!
What kind of tests? If PCR, I'd trust two negative tests. If you tested with a rapid antigen test *each* day for 9 days since recovery, I'd trust that too. But two rapid antigen tests might be a little uncertain
Honestly, most home tests are pretty much useless for middle to low virus counts. There's this list from the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Germany (unfortunately no longe kept current), where they tested the various home tests with different virus counts (cq value in the list).
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But even though the list is old, it still shows how bad those tests are for the lower ranges. So don't rely on home tests if it is really important, better be safe than sorry.
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The only issue is that you could be reinfected at any time and that people are contagious before they show symptoms - so not at all what the OP was saying, but still something to be aware of.
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Did the Paxlovid turn out ok for you?
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/10/13/hhs-and-pfizer-reach-agreement-to-increase-patient-access-to-paxlovid.html#:~:text=Individuals%20on%20Medicare%2C%20Medicaid%2C%20and,via%20a%20patient%20assistance%20program.
Not a big fan of the runs and everything (including the inside of my mouth) tasting like I'd liked an uncoated asprin, but a minor price to pay.
But the guidelines are aimed to get everyone back on task ASAP hoping they're not infectious enough to matter.
RIP Public Health.
Had immunology classes and we talked abt this specific kind of problem in uni.
If you have no symptoms and have repeatedly tested negative, you cannot be infectious.
Relapses also uncommon.
It’s not a magic disease.
But some people have become very paranoid.
I agree there's no reason to believe you would "likely" still be contagious, but if one wanted to know for sure these tests are extremely effective for exactly that!
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You can check your test with this list, but as I said, it is no longer current: https://www.pei.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/newsroom/dossiers/archivversion-vergleichende-evaluierung-sensitivitaet-sars-cov-2-antigen-schnelltests-30-05-2022-pdf.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=6
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