re: How long did you test positive for Covid?

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This doesn’t make any sense

You can test positive for up to 90 days but CDC and every other authority on the planet says that you’re no longer contagious 10 days after initial symptoms as long as your symptoms continue to improve.

There’s no reason you can’t return to work as long as your symptoms have improved

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Correct, test will still detect dead viral proteins but you aren’t contagious. I had a patient who got better, no symptoms but couldn’t get chemo for her cancer because she was still testing +.

Yeah, some places are run by idiots.

My second contact tracing call (from the county?) said that I cleared after 10 days (with a positive test) but that a close contact had to quarantine for 14 days (after testing negative) because they weren't following CDC guidelines until AFTER the holidays.

My mom had covid in August and tested positive via rapid test just last week. Doc did a blood test that same day which came back showing no active virus and antibodies in her blood.

When I tested positive and went back 2 weeks later to get re-tested similar to how you just did, Doc told me it was a worthless test because it was 100% going to show up still positive, which it did. They gave me a signed letter to return to work.

ETA: My understanding (and somebody please correct me) is that the rapid test tests for the presence of the virus, and not whether the virus is active or not.