Health officials recommend that anyone infected with the coronavirus isolate for at least five days. But for many, that timeline is becoming overly optimistic.
Tanya Flanagan hands back a nose swab to Kenneth Williams after administering herself a COVID-19 test during a preview of a testing site in North Las Vegas, Nev., on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022.
Dr. Robert Kosnik, director of UC San Francisco’s occupational health program, said at a campus town hall in July that there’s an expectation people will test negative on Day 5 and can return to work the next day. The proportion of positive test results “was lower after asymptomatic than symptomatic infection,” researchers found.
Days 6-10: You can end isolation if your rapid test result — taken on Day 5 or later — is negative, you’ve been fever-free for 24 hours without taking fever-reducing medicines and your symptoms are improving or you don’t have symptoms. The California Department of Public Health strongly recommends still wearing a well-fitting mask around other people until the end of Day 10. In L.A.
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