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no_hypocrisy

(45,771 posts)
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 09:17 AM Nov 2020

Can 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.

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Can you recover from Covid in a week or 10 days? (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Nov 2020 OP
just like Trump? RicROC Nov 2020 #1
I think he had some form of Pneumonia. marble falls Nov 2020 #2
Yeah, COVID pneumonia. GoCubsGo Nov 2020 #17
I was my sickest for about 4 or 5 days. cwydro Nov 2020 #3
Agree totally gradmaster Nov 2020 #4
Welcome to DU gradmaster. no_hypocrisy Nov 2020 #5
Effects range from asymptomatic to death. Phoenix61 Nov 2020 #6
If she says she feels good enough to work, why is your response "I don't understand covid and I WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2020 #7
Exactly. LisaL Nov 2020 #11
With mild symptoms? Yes MissB Nov 2020 #8
CDC guidance Ms. Toad Nov 2020 #9
What about a NEGATIVE Covid-19 test? GeorgeGist Nov 2020 #15
The guidelines are the same if you think or know you had COVID (even if you test negative). Ms. Toad Nov 2020 #19
Yes. Some people have very few if any symptoms. LisaL Nov 2020 #10
I was basically fine after the first 5 days of my positive test SlogginThroughIt Nov 2020 #12
I hope she is tested before she returns. Asymptomatic does not mean non-infectious. Midnight Writer Nov 2020 #13
Neighbors had it and DeminPennswoods Nov 2020 #14
It depends... Almost 90 days in, I am still unable to work and most days JCMach1 Nov 2020 #16
A friend of mine tested negative after 10 days Sympthsical Nov 2020 #18
As long as the cough has been improving Ms. Toad Nov 2020 #20

RicROC

(1,202 posts)
1. just like Trump?
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 09:22 AM
Nov 2020

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.

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
17. Yeah, COVID pneumonia.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 02:13 PM
Nov 2020

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.

gradmaster

(29 posts)
4. Agree totally
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 09:45 AM
Nov 2020

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 ..." !

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,145 posts)
7. If she says she feels good enough to work, why is your response "I don't understand covid and I
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 11:40 AM
Nov 2020

don't see how she's ready"?

LisaL

(44,962 posts)
11. Exactly.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 12:04 PM
Nov 2020

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)
8. With mild symptoms? Yes
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 11:42 AM
Nov 2020

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, he’s rock climbing in remote areas of several states.

Ms. Toad

(33,915 posts)
9. CDC guidance
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 11:55 AM
Nov 2020
You can be around others after:

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​

Ms. Toad

(33,915 posts)
19. The guidelines are the same if you think or know you had COVID (even if you test negative).
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 02:24 PM
Nov 2020

But if the question is about exposure followed by a negative test (without symptoms):

For Anyone Who Has Been Around a Person with COVID-19
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)
10. Yes. Some people have very few if any symptoms.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 12:02 PM
Nov 2020

I know several with very few symptoms, one was completely asymptomatic.

 

SlogginThroughIt

(1,977 posts)
12. I was basically fine after the first 5 days of my positive test
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 12:05 PM
Nov 2020

I had lingering fatigue for about 2 weeks, but I was fine.

JCMach1

(27,544 posts)
16. It depends... Almost 90 days in, I am still unable to work and most days
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 02:06 PM
Nov 2020

It's extremely difficult to function.

10 days, she's lucky if she isn't still positive

Sympthsical

(8,935 posts)
18. A friend of mine tested negative after 10 days
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 02:17 PM
Nov 2020

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)
20. As long as the cough has been improving
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 02:29 PM
Nov 2020

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.

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