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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. I am confused as well. I understand that you need a negative covid test 1 day prior to re-entry into US. What happens if you test positive on the day before your flight? How long do you need to wait to fly home if asymptomatic? It could take weeks to get a negative test. [/quote]

You have a 10 day period before you can travel again, then two consecutive negative tests are required. My husband’s coworker tested positive on a work trip and is stuck in the UK until at least next week. Luckily his work is picking up costs. If you are traveling as a family and one person tests positive then you are supposed to quarantine as a group but it is not enforced. I believe you can also get a doctor to override the waiting period with cause or to retest and challenge results but the language is vague about how often or for what reasons that is allowed. [/quote]

A lot of this is incorrect or mixing of recommendations and actual requirements. Here are your options to be able to board a plane from outside the US to get back:

1. A negative test, observed by someone else, with printed/emailed results with your name, date,test, etc, taken no more than one calendar day before your flight. It doesn't matter how many positive tests you have had before, or if you have had positive tests for 3 days or however long. If you can produce a proctored negative test, you can get on the plane.

2. Evidence of a positive test within the last 3 months, along with a doctor's certificate of recovery, which basically says your name, date of birth, etc, and that you tested positive on X date, and that as of at least 10 days later you no longer have symptoms.

That's it. One of those two things. You can see the details here. There is nothing there about needing two negative tests after a positive, or about "retest and challenge results"

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/testing-international-air-travelers.html[/quote]

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