Should a pre-school teacher return to work after 4 days with Covid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The replies here are disturbing. If you're position a rapid test, you're contagious.

Flat out false. The science is very unclear about contagiousness of covid in the later phases especially using at home tests. In fact, evidence suggests that people after ten days are NOT contagious even when testing positive.

Stop spreading lies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The replies here are disturbing. If you're position a rapid test, you're contagious.

Flat out false. The science is very unclear about contagiousness of covid in the later phases especially using at home tests. In fact, evidence suggests that people after ten days are NOT contagious even when testing positive.

Stop spreading lies.

DP here. Doesn’t matter either way. Society can’t function like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The replies here are disturbing. If you're position a rapid test, you're contagious.

Flat out false. The science is very unclear about contagiousness of covid in the later phases especially using at home tests. In fact, evidence suggests that people after ten days are NOT contagious even when testing positive.

Stop spreading lies.

Nothing I wrote is a lie.

“…But there is no perfect study that shows how likely it is that a positive test on a rapid test translates into shedding enough virus that you could actually infect another person, says Dr. Geoffrey Baird, chair of the department of laboratory medicine and pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

"The answer to that is clear as mud," he says.

Indeed, infectious disease experts tend to differ about how much stock to put in a rapid test result when someone knows they're infected and deciding whether it's safe to rejoin the outside world.

After all, Baird points out that these tests were never designed to function as get-out-of-isolation cards. Relying on the result to tell whether you're truly still infectious is dicey, he says.

"There's actually a lot more discrepancy than anyone would be happy with," he says.

A positive antigen test could essentially be picking up leftover viral "garbage," which can include "dead viruses, mangled viruses ... viruses that are 90% packed together but not really going to work," says Baird. And the amount can vary depending on each person's immune system, the variants, the stage of the infection, and so on.“

-NPR

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The replies here are disturbing. If you're position a rapid test, you're contagious.

Flat out false. The science is very unclear about contagiousness of covid in the later phases especially using at home tests. In fact, evidence suggests that people after ten days are NOT contagious even when testing positive.

Stop spreading lies.

You COVID for eternity folks have really become practically the same as the weirdos who went around intentionally coughing on people. Totally lost the thread.