Covid: still testing positive 8 days in

Teesste

Teesste

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8 days into my 10 days of isolation and I’m still testing positive. I’m assuming if I’m still testing positive (without a high temperature) come Friday when I can go out again I just crack on with life as normal as I won’t be contagious!?

There doesn’t seem to be much said about this anywhere.

As an aside, did anyone else lose their sense of taste/smell?? Absolutely hating it and hoping it doesn’t last much longer but apparently it can be weeks before it comes back.
 
I can taste things but have like a sanitised taste in my mouth which can get stringer from time to time,been this way over a year now . Yet I’ve never tested positive for covid
 
Teesste said:
8 days into my 10 days of isolation and I’m still testing positive. I’m assuming if I’m still testing positive (without a high temperature) come Friday when I can go out again I just crack on with life as normal as I won’t be contagious!?

There doesn’t seem to be much said about this anywhere.

As an aside, did anyone else lose their sense of taste/smell?? Absolutely hating it and hoping it doesn’t last much longer but apparently it can be weeks before it comes back.
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From the M.I.T website:

How do we know 10 days is long enough? Because researchers at the CDC and elsewhere have failed to successfully culture viral particles obtained from individuals more than nine days after their symptoms began. In fact, according to the CDC, “the statistically estimated likelihood of recovering replication-competent virus approaches zero by 10 days.” Replication-competent virus is virus that can infect cells and reproduce itself to make additional infectious particles. Individuals who are not shedding replication-competent virus are not infectious and cannot transmit the virus to others.

But what if someone still tests positive after 10 days? This is very common. People who have tested positive for COVID-19 are very likely to continue to test positive after 10 days. But they are not contagious.

People who have tested positive or who have been sick with COVID-19 often continue to test positive for up to three months. Even after your immune system neutralizes a virus (COVID-19 or almost any other virus), bits and pieces of the virus’s genetic material remain in your body — like DNA evidence left at a crime scene. These little viral remnants degrade over time. They can’t harm you, and they can’t infect anyone else, but they can cause you to continue to test positive.
 
Cuthbert said:
From the M.I.T website:

How do we know 10 days is long enough? Because researchers at the CDC and elsewhere have failed to successfully culture viral particles obtained from individuals more than nine days after their symptoms began. In fact, according to the CDC, “the statistically estimated likelihood of recovering replication-competent virus approaches zero by 10 days.” Replication-competent virus is virus that can infect cells and reproduce itself to make additional infectious particles. Individuals who are not shedding replication-competent virus are not infectious and cannot transmit the virus to others.

But what if someone still tests positive after 10 days? This is very common. People who have tested positive for COVID-19 are very likely to continue to test positive after 10 days. But they are not contagious.

People who have tested positive or who have been sick with COVID-19 often continue to test positive for up to three months. Even after your immune system neutralizes a virus (COVID-19 or almost any other virus), bits and pieces of the virus’s genetic material remain in your body — like DNA evidence left at a crime scene. These little viral remnants degrade over time. They can’t harm you, and they can’t infect anyone else, but they can cause you to continue to test positive.
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Thanks Cuthbert 👍🏼.. I’d seen that and is about the only thing I can find online that mentions it. I’m surprised there’s nothing on the NHS website about it.
 
I work away and to get in other countries I needed a neg pcr test

I tested positive in September last year and was still positive in November 25th
 
If you have texted positive for covid, it is likely you will continue to test positive via PCR for up to 90 days after being symptomatic (or since your positive test if asymptotic). After your 10 day isolation ends you are able to go about your business if you do not have any symptoms. Taking a further pcr will re-start your isolation period if positive, so doing an lfd instead is advised if unsure about leaving the house to return to e.g. work

www.nhs.uk

COVID-19 symptoms and what to do

Find out about the symptoms of COVID-19, what to do if you or your child has them and when to get medical help.
www.nhs.uk www.nhs.uk
 
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