Anew German study, not yet peer reviewed, offers some of the best available evidence. That study suggests that COVID-19 patients are most infectious early in the course of their disease, and that those with mild cases are at low risk of spreading the virus 10 days after they first experien...
How long is COVID infectious? What scientists know so farThose with SARS-CoV-2 are often advised to isolate for only a few days. But evidence is mounting that some people can continue to pass on the virus for much longer. By David Adam ...
How long are you contagious with COVID? People seem to pass on the virus most often about two days before symptoms show up and during the early stages of their illness. If your symptoms are serious, you may be infectious for a longer period People infected with COVID can spread it even ...
How long are you infectious? The "infectious period" means the time you're able to spread the virus to someone else. For COVID-19, there is emerging evidence to suggest theinfectious period may start1 to 3 days before youdevelop symptoms. The most infectious period is thought to be 1 to...
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How long are you contagious with COVID? People seem to pass on the virus most often about two days before symptoms show up and during the early stages of their illness. If your symptoms are serious, you may be infectious for a longer period ...
Microcovid had a blog post a while ago, pre-delta, that has this image: From what I remember about omicron, the infectiousness window is smaller. Ballparking it, I'll throw out some numbers and guess that on day 5 maybe you are 20% as infectious, and on day 10 you are 1% as ...
Background: COVID-19 cases need to be isolated long enough toprevent further transmission but no longer than needed. Determiningthe infectious period of COVID-19 is complicated by four factors: 1)people can be diagnosed when they are symptomatic, pre-symptomaticor asymptomatic, 2) the common ...
How long is your COVID vaccine good for?Until recently, it’s been nearly impossible to say. Immunity, whether from vaccine or prior infection, is thought to wane after three or four months, but it varies by person. That knowledge is based on what’s known abou...
Are recovered persons with persistent positive test of COVID-19 infectious to others? Persons who have tested persistently or recurrently positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA have, in some cases, had their signs and symptoms of COVID-19 improve. When viral isolation in tissue culture has been attempted...