When you hear that COVID cases are ramping up in the U.S. again, and there's the threat of a "tripledemic" possibly looming, it’s only natural to have new questions about the virus. In the mix: When are you most contagious with COVID? Like, if you happened to just grab brunch...
Announcing the change, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said COVID-19 modeling projections had shown the highly contagious Omicron variant would likely peak in Queensland around the last week of this month and the first week of February. By delaying school for a fortnight, Palaszczuk said stu...
The best way to know for sure how close you're cutting it with your bedtime is to use a Santa tracker. There are several on the internet you can use to keep track of the Jolly Old Elf, that way you can make sure you're in bed on time. ...
"Rapid antigen tests are excellent tools to tell people if they are currently infectious and should isolate," Gronvall says. If you have Covid, you'll be "the most contagious" when you're first experiencing symptoms, Gronvall says. That ...
There's a good amount of evidence showing most fully vaccinated and boosted people with breakthrough infections are both less contagious, and contagious for a shorter time. They're also more likely to get mild infections. Q: Can I report my positive at-home test results to public health offi...
A negative antigen test doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t contagious. Q: What should I do if I’ve been exposed? If you’ve been exposed, but have no symptomsandyou are fully vaccinated and boosted, you don’t need to quarantine. But you should get a test on Day 4, 5, or 6...
University's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. "But it isn't going to be the same for every person. It is difficult to know when you are not infectious. If you get a negative, the odds are good you are done with shedding. If you are still positive, you may or may not be a ...
Zombification originally represented the horrors of enslavement that Haitians suffered because “in Haitian culture, zombies are commonly seen as victims deserving sympathy and care,” he said. Moving away from the zombie-as-monster trope, K-drama deconstructed zombification as a contagious phenomenon,...