Ok Ok I know my blog has been boring so I am going to fess up……
A week last Friday I came down with a very mild sore throat so stayed home the rest of the day….
Also stayed home Saturday and Sunday and still had a very mild cough but no other symptoms whatsoever but I did go for a Covid test last Monday which to my surprise came back positive…..
I had already been isolating so just continued that process, saw no one and never left my casita except for each evening around 9 pm when I masked up and went walking in the hood, saw very few people and enjoying putting 6000 steps on my Fitbit each evening….
Have continued to feel good and the very slight runny nose is still with me…..late last night I tested myself with a home kit and again was surprised and disappointed that the test was positive ……
I was hoping to return to my normal life but will continue to isolate although I do plan to take a drive tomorrow and do a hike I know I will not come into contact with anyone.
Many articles on the Internet ..
We may be entering our third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but we're still getting the hang of testing. And, for people who continue to test positive for coronavirus late into their infection, it may be particularly difficult to know what to do with those results.
If you test positive for COVID-19, you can end your isolation after just five days if you never developed symptoms, according to the latest guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Or, if you did develop symptoms, you can leave isolation after you've been without a fever for 24 hours (without using fever-reducing medication), provided your other symptoms are resolving as well. That can be as early as after five full days of isolation, the CDC says.
The CDC also amended its guidelines to add that, if you have access to a rapid antigen test, you can take the test at the end of day five of your isolation (as long as you've been fever-free for at least 24 hours). If it's negative, you can use that result to feel more confident about leaving isolation at that time. But if it's positive, the CDC says you should continue isolating through day 10.
The government is providing at-home COVID-19 tests to Americans for free. Every household in the U.S. can order up to four tests. Administration officials have predicted it will take seven to 12 days for the tests to ship, but some Americans have already received their tests.
Regardless of when you end isolation, anyone who tests positive for COVID-19 should take precautions for 10 full days, the CDC says. That includes wearing a mask when around others, avoiding travel and avoiding being around people who are high-risk for severe COVID-19.
How long do people normally test positive for COVID-19?
In the most general terms, people will likely test positive on an at-home rapid COVID-19 test for about six to 10 days, Dr. Stephen Kissler, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the department of immunology and infectious diseases, told TODAY.
And when it comes to PCR tests, people may test positive for even longer, Dr. Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, associate professor of pathology, molecular and cell-based medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, explained. "You can still have positivity that may persist for weeks and even months," he explained, noting that positive tests on PCR have been recorded for up to 60 days.
But there are a lot of factors that can affect the number of days someone may test positive.
Considering that different tests may perform differently “and you have a context of a virus that is in constant evolution, and then you have all these variants, you’re changing the variables of the equation over and over again,” said Paniz-Mondolfi, who also leads the Saliva COVID Test Lab at Mount Sinai. That makes it difficult to predict exactly how long someone may test positive.
Even with a rapid test, it's not unheard of for people to test positive up to 14 days, especially for those who are unvaccinated, Kissler said. "We see a ton of variation between people in how long they test positive," he explained. "While that average is closer to six to 10 days, there are people who will hang on for longer than that."
Again I feel blessed to have the Covid but feel so good after all the suffering and deaths it has caused!!
Stay safe and healthy!!
Yashi Kochi!!
No comments:
Post a Comment