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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan you recover from Covid in a week or 10 days?
Or do you just feel better than your worst day and you still have Covid?
I know a physical therapist who was diagnosed 10+ days ago (along with her husband) with Covid and the hospital (where she contracted it) wants her to return to work this week.
She says she feels better. I don't think she's ready. While she wasn't admitted from the ER to the hospital, with my limited understanding of Covid, I don't see how she's ready, either for herself or for others to whom she'll be spreading virus.
RicROC
(1,202 posts)Trump supposed caught COVID and within a week or so, was back on the campaign trail, attending 4-5 rallies a day. My suspicions is that he never had COVID. I'm not sure what he had other than a cough.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)He had the virus, and was not fully recovered from it when he returned to his rallies. He was just pumped full of drugs, some of which has no access to, including the one produced by the Regeneron company. They also attempted all sorts of tricks to make it appear as if he was healthy again. He had to enter and exit AF1 from the cargo hold in the belly of the plane early on, because he couldn't make it up and down the stairs. They wound up switching to a 757, which is closer to the ground, and parked it next to a platform, so he would only have to climb a few stairs to get in and out of it. He couldn't stand up for any length of time without hanging onto the podium for dear life. Still can't. Which is why he does any press conference that lasts more than 5 minutes sitting down. Like the one with the tiny desk.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Didnt feel my best till about 10 days.
gradmaster
(29 posts)I am also one who believes Trump never had Covid. I've always questioned how he could make such a remarkable recovery, given his obvious health issues and age. Gramted, he had the best care, but would that care eliminate any after effects? I think Trump thought that a Covid diagnosis would help him in the election. The only thing that deters me a bit in my belief is that there would have to have been a massive conspiracy within the medical community, but then, every doctor who spoke prefaced their remarks with the usual Trump sycophant isms "It has been the greatest honor of my life ..." !
no_hypocrisy
(45,771 posts)Phoenix61
(16,952 posts)Im sure there are some who recover in 10 days. They are following the latest CDC data.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/duration-isolation.html
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)don't see how she's ready"?
LisaL
(44,962 posts)Covid affects people differently. One person I know was completely asymptomatic, the other had a loss of sense of smell and that was the extent of the symptoms.
So with mild covid one can certainly recover (if there is something to recover from) in 10 days.
MissB
(15,800 posts)My youngest recovers in that time frame. He had many symptoms in rapid succession in that time frame but was quite fine and very bored for the last few days of his 10-day quarantine.
Less than 2 weeks after that, hes rock climbing in remote areas of several states.
Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)10 days since symptoms first appeared and
24 hours with no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and
Other symptoms of COVID-19 are improving*
*Loss of taste and smell may persist for weeks or months after recovery and need not delay the end of isolation
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)But if the question is about exposure followed by a negative test (without symptoms):
Anyone who has had close contact with someone with COVID-19 should stay home for 14 days after their last exposure to that person.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/end-home-isolation.html
A negative test - in and of itself - is a photograph in time. All it means is that you didn't have COVID the moment you were tested. If you know you've been exposed, you still have to isolate for 14 days since you could still test positive later in the 14-day window.
My daughter was definitely exposed. She's had one negative test (and may have had a second one - I know she sent the second one off). I've tested negative twice within the 14 days window of her exposure (she might have caught it, not tested positive, but still transmitted it to me.) 14 days from her exposure was Saturday - so crossing my fingers that we are safe!
LisaL
(44,962 posts)I know several with very few symptoms, one was completely asymptomatic.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)I had lingering fatigue for about 2 weeks, but I was fine.
Midnight Writer
(21,546 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)both missed 2 weeks of work. I think that's been at least the informal standard.
JCMach1
(27,544 posts)It's extremely difficult to function.
10 days, she's lucky if she isn't still positive
Sympthsical
(8,935 posts)He had symptoms, tested positive. Got another test and tested negative. He has a lingering cough yet, and I don't hang around him (I'm crazy paranoid and careful). But he's bored and wants to go back to work. So, it can happen.
Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)and there's no fever, he should not be contagious.
But they've been wrong before - so keep your distance, wear a mask, have him wear a mask, and that should be OK.
Please don't call yourself paranoid - you aren't, and it is a term of derision used by people to justify taking unsafe risk (and make you seem to the the unreasonable one). My spouse uses it against me because I wear a mask around her, since she is regularly hanging out with people outside of our house without a mask.
This is a potentially deadly disease - we all need to be more careful, not less.