Daughter tested positive yesterday. Timeline?

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So daughter tested positive yesterday officially (negative the night before with home test).

No symptoms so far, but what are the new timelines for quarantine? She's double vaxxed.
Sandman98
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People are still doing quarantines?
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Also, symptomless testing for the Holidays is the reason the case numbers look scary right?
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wbt5845
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Why did she get tested?
unmade bed
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Was positive test also a home test?
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wbt5845 said:

Why did she get tested?


Contact with known carrier.
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Squadron7 said:

wbt5845 said:

Why did she get tested?


Contact with known carrier.


CDC guidelines are don't test if vaxxed and no symptoms. Fwiw
Whoop!
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unmade bed said:

Was positive test also a home test?


Negative test day before was home test. Positive test next day was by a clinic. Home test hours after clinic test was also positive. Scratchy throat + known contact + seeing 85 year old grandmother soon was reason for testing.
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JamesBREI06 said:

Squadron7 said:

wbt5845 said:

Why did she get tested?


Contact with known carrier.


CDC guidelines are don't test if vaxxed and no symptoms. Fwiw


For positive tests?
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Squadron7 said:

wbt5845 said:

Why did she get tested?


Contact with known carrier.


So… why did she get tested?
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Squadron7 said:

unmade bed said:

Was positive test also a home test?


Negative test day before was home test. Positive test next day was by a clinic. Home test hours after clinic test was also positive. Scratchy throat + known contact + seeing 85 year old grandmother soon was reason for testing.


Is the 85 year old grandmother vaxxed?
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You did right thing.
The Fall Guy
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You did the right thing. Courtesy for relatives that may be incompromised even if vaxed us good. Would hate to be that person who may get them sick knowingly.
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If I'm sick, I don't go around my 85 year old grandmother at all. I don't need a test to tell me that's a bad idea. And a negative test would not tell me it's a good idea.
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You did nothing wrong. I'm in same boat.

Same symptoms. 10 days from start of symptoms is her quarantine.
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wbt5845 said:

If I'm sick, I don't go around my 85 year old grandmother at all. I don't need a test to tell me that's a bad idea. And a negative test would not tell me it's a good idea.


EXACTLY. Covid eradicated common sense.
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Salute The Marines said:

Squadron7 said:

unmade bed said:

Was positive test also a home test?


Negative test day before was home test. Positive test next day was by a clinic. Home test hours after clinic test was also positive. Scratchy throat + known contact + seeing 85 year old grandmother soon was reason for testing.


Is the 85 year old grandmother vaxxed?

Yes.
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wbt5845 said:

If I'm sick, I don't go around my 85 year old grandmother at all. I don't need a test to tell me that's a bad idea. And a negative test would not tell me it's a good idea.


He said she's not showing symptoms so the daughter isn't sick.
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Squadron7 said:

Salute The Marines said:

Squadron7 said:

unmade bed said:

Was positive test also a home test?


Negative test day before was home test. Positive test next day was by a clinic. Home test hours after clinic test was also positive. Scratchy throat + known contact + seeing 85 year old grandmother soon was reason for testing.


Is the 85 year old grandmother vaxxed?

Yes.


Then there's nothing to worry about.
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Salute The Marines said:

Squadron7 said:

Salute The Marines said:

Squadron7 said:

unmade bed said:

Was positive test also a home test?


Negative test day before was home test. Positive test next day was by a clinic. Home test hours after clinic test was also positive. Scratchy throat + known contact + seeing 85 year old grandmother soon was reason for testing.


Is the 85 year old grandmother vaxxed?

Yes.


Then there's nothing to worry about.


I'm not sure if this is sarcasm...but no, you don't want to expose an 85 year old, vaxxed or not, to someone with COVID.
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But the daughter isn't sick.

If she has concerns about having recently been sick and being around the elderly, so be it and stay home. But the COVID is irrelevant, which is why my very first question was why did she get tested?

If you have been sick recently and have concerns, avoid the elderly. Whether or not your illness was due to COVID is irrelevant.
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You wouldn't go visit anyone if sick, Covid or not.
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Op, you/your daughter absolutely made the right decision. It's ridiculous that anyone else says otherwise.

Regarding quarantine, we don't have a good answer for those that are vaccinated. However we know that the vaccinated generally have shorter courses of illness, and therefore clear the virus faster from their body. In an unvaccinated person, the absolute longest they are infectious to others is a little over 9 days - so quarantine period was set at 10 days.

For someone who is vaccinated, I don't have a perfect answer, but I would imagine 7 days would be sufficient although potentially even as short as 5. The average time to clearance of the virus is about 5.5 days.

If she was truly asymptomatic, then count her first positive test as time = 0. If she had any symptoms, I'd call that time = 0.
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Diyala Nick said:

Salute The Marines said:

Squadron7 said:

Salute The Marines said:

Squadron7 said:

unmade bed said:

Was positive test also a home test?


Negative test day before was home test. Positive test next day was by a clinic. Home test hours after clinic test was also positive. Scratchy throat + known contact + seeing 85 year old grandmother soon was reason for testing.


Is the 85 year old grandmother vaxxed?

Yes.


Then there's nothing to worry about.


I'm not sure if this is sarcasm...but no, you don't want to expose an 85 year old, vaxxed or not, to someone with COVID.


The OP said she was asymptomatic. If we keep treating people who simply test positive as a "case" or that the are "sick" then this will never end.
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If you are sick, don't be around people. If you aren't sick, then do life as normal. This worked for approximately 1928474 years before this so not sure why it doesn't all of a sudden work now
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Salute The Marines said:




The OP said she was asymptomatic. If we keep treating people who simply test positive as a "case" or that the are "sick" then this will never end.
If you're asymptomatic are you capable of infecting others?
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There has been no verifiable evidence produced(that I know of) that suggests asymptomatic spread is a thing.
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NTXAg10 said:

There has been no verifiable evidence produced(that I know of) that suggests asymptomatic spread is a thing.
And my guess is that an antigen test is more likely to be negative in the pre-symptomatic period. I remember in the good old days the rule was, no fever - no problem.
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Diyala Nick said:

Salute The Marines said:

Squadron7 said:

Salute The Marines said:

Squadron7 said:

unmade bed said:

Was positive test also a home test?


Negative test day before was home test. Positive test next day was by a clinic. Home test hours after clinic test was also positive. Scratchy throat + known contact + seeing 85 year old grandmother soon was reason for testing.


Is the 85 year old grandmother vaxxed?

Yes.


Then there's nothing to worry about.


I'm not sure if this is sarcasm...but no, you don't want to expose an 85 year old, vaxxed or not, to someone with COVID.


I'd like to add an additional comment here. This virus is endemic and will be with us forever. The 85 year old grandmother, and everyone else's grandmother, will be exposed to covid constantly going forward. At the store. At the nursing home. At the doctors office. At the birthday parties. Everywhere. Now I'm not saying purposely expose them. But, this elaborates the point that we absolutely have to stop the insane idea of mass testing the asymptomatic.
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He said no symptoms then he said "scratchy throat". Makes perfect sense to get tested.

I agree random testing of people without symptoms is dumb, like our football team found out.
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gougler08 said:

If you are sick, don't be around people. If you aren't sick, then do life as normal. This worked for approximately 1928474 years before this so not sure why it doesn't all of a sudden work now


Completely agree. People going to work with a fever (especially in good service) are just being *******s.

Stay home.
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AgsMyDude said:

gougler08 said:

If you are sick, don't be around people. If you aren't sick, then do life as normal. This worked for approximately 1928474 years before this so not sure why it doesn't all of a sudden work now


Completely agree. People going to work with a fever (especially in good service) are just being *******s.

Stay home.


Agreed, I do think this will end up being a positive from all this in that employers and employees will be more comfortable with people working from home if they are under the weather
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GAC06 said:

He said no symptoms then he said "scratchy throat". Makes perfect sense to get tested.
Why? Have a cold, stay home. No symptoms, live on.
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bigtruckguy3500 said:

Op, you/your daughter absolutely made the right decision. It's ridiculous that anyone else says otherwise.

Regarding quarantine, we don't have a good answer for those that are vaccinated. However we know that the vaccinated generally have shorter courses of illness, and therefore clear the virus faster from their body. In an unvaccinated person, the absolute longest they are infectious to others is a little over 9 days - so quarantine period was set at 10 days.

For someone who is vaccinated, I don't have a perfect answer, but I would imagine 7 days would be sufficient although potentially even as short as 5. The average time to clearance of the virus is about 5.5 days.

If she was truly asymptomatic, then count her first positive test as time = 0. If she had any symptoms, I'd call that time = 0.

This is what an answer to the actual question likes like.
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