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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

OR

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

Pp was asking what happens if they test positive, not the requirements for the initial test protocol

If you test positive, you stay in whatever country you are until you can meet one of the above requirements.

It's not been my experience that if you test positive you are banned from the US entry until you test negative.
A member of our traveling party tested positive in London. The nurse practitioner who took her test said she could return to the US 5 days after her symptoms started. In her case, she needed to stay in UK for 3 additional days. I realize this raises questions, but that's been my very recent experience.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

OR

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

Pp was asking what happens if they test positive, not the requirements for the initial test protocol

If you test positive, you stay in whatever country you are until you can meet one of the above requirements.

Anonymous wrote:It depends on where you’re going. At this point, you’ll need a negative test to re-enter the US.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

OR

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

Pp was asking what happens if they test positive, not the requirements for the initial test protocol

If you test positive, you stay in whatever country you are until you can meet one of the above requirements.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

OR

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

Pp was asking what happens if they test positive, not the requirements for the initial test protocol

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

OR

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

Anonymous wrote:Yes, you need an antigen test to come home to the US.

Have a plan for what happens if one of you catches covid.

We don't have kids, but we have a pet to get home to. So we travel with our own tests from Emed.com and we bring work laptops. If one of us is negative, that person will depart and get back home. We also get Trawick covid travel insurance as a backup, pretty cheap for what you get.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Anonymous wrote:It depends on where you’re going. At this point, you’ll need a negative test to re-enter the US.