Covid while traveling
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Anonymous
| How long is your flight? |
Anonymous
| Start Paxlovid and wait 2-3 days, OP. When you have fewer symptoms, and that will happen in 1-2 days on Paxlovid, put N95 on and fly home. That is, if you do not have vulnerable family members. If you do, sit tight until negative and no rebound. |
Anonymous
What? There is covid now to test for mild cold like symptoms. Have you been living in a cave? |
Anonymous
| With mild cold like symptoms, grab an n95 and get on the plane. Do you know how many people are on the plan unmasked with covid? |
Anonymous
Absurd. No, you don’t do this, and nobody is doing this. I’ve had covid twice and been pretty sick but only for about 48 hrs. So if I could afford it, would probably hunker down for a few days in the hotel, then head home. If you can’t afford it, then just wear a mask on the plane. |
Anonymous
CDC is updating guidance and not requiring isolation any longer. Fly home as long as you are fever free!! |
Anonymous
This 100% If you feel up to travel, fact is 99% of people don't care if they infect others or do anything to protect themselves, if they did, they would be masked in the airport and on the plane. So IMO even if you are infected and on a plane wearing a KN95 or N95, you are not the risk to them. It's the 99% of those on the plane without a mask that are a risk. |
Anonymous
CDC is just bowing to public pressure. Of course you should not be around others if you test positive. Certainly not without a mask. That is why this will never end. |
Anonymous
| Wait until you test negative to fly home, sit tight for a few days OP. I hope you feel better soon. Be sure to still mask until day 10 around others. |
Anonymous
No guarantee OP will test negative in just a few days. And not everyone can afford to "sit tight" a few more days (or another week or more) in a hotel. CDC is updating their guidance to be more in line with what is recommended for other respiratory infections, which is to isolate until fever-free for w4 hours and symptoms are starting to clear. I mean, sure...ideally, no one ever sets foot on a plane while they are knowingly symptomatic for any illness. Unfortunately, that's not how the world works. |
Anonymous
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I would assume a significant number of people already on a plane are unmasked and have symptomatic or unsymptomatic Covid.
Would get Paxlovid if you can and reschedule your flight when you feel better OP. Be sure to wear an N95 to protect yourself and others. |
Anonymous
| I would wait until symptoms improve and fly home. Your contagiousness lessens the more you wait. |
Anonymous
| Just put on a mask and fly home. Most people aren’t testing, and there are likely plenty of Covid positive people on the plane not wearing a mask. |
Anonymous
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If you’d feel bad I’d wait 5 days and fly with a mask.
If you don’t GAF, I’d fly with a mask. |
Anonymous
rude. I would never do that if I had tested positive. In fact, I didn't. I waited it our 7 days in a foreign country and only then headed home |