Oh, yeah, there’s drive-up no appointments places where you wait in line in your car until they get to you. Expect a lot of posts from me while I’m doing that as I’m hearing 2 hours is common on weekends.
And I just checked CDC guidance and assuming it’s Covid I’m supposed to isolate for 5 full days from when I started experiencing symptoms. Which was Thursday evening. Which counts as Day 0.
So as I understand it, if I test positive or just assume I am, then I shouldn’t go to work until Wednesday, right? If I test negative I can go to work as soon as I feel better, which hopefully will be sooner than that.
But like, my first symptom was shortness of breath. Very mild, but I could tell I was breathing a lot more than normal. I don’t know how common that is with anything other than Covid, considering I’m in my 40s and never had asthma.
Client I’m with right now doesn’t like WFH. And for reasons that I won’t go into… there’s some justification for that. Pretty old school with a lot of physical documents. Radical difference from my other client located 1,200 miles away whose office I have never once been to. But a different job / different requirements.
Partly a function of their clients and partly a function of the owners.
If I needed tests, I would cast a wide net in my neighborhood and I would have tests at my doorstep within 3 hours. And I would do this for others as well. If you feel you really need a home test, then ask for help.
10 days after I had symptoms develop, assuming symptoms are largely resolved, am I still infectious?
I know I pass CDC isolation guidelines, but curious about if I should feel safe going to family (unvaccinated) after day 10 without them getting infected?
I found a place that lets you get virtually “in line” and then they text you when they estimate the wait time is 20 minutes. So I’m “in line” at home right now. Slightly nerve-wracking in that I can’t check on my progress / verify that I didn’t somehow lose my place in line. No clue if they’ll text me in 8 minutes or 8 hours.
Do you think you had Omicron? I think if so you are probably fine after 10 days.
Guidance is 5 days of isolation plus five additional days of masking following any variant, but I think Omicron runs its course faster than earlier variants, so 10 days should be more than enough for Omicron.
I started noticing symptoms Thursday evening and I am already on the upswing with yesterday being the worst day by a long shot. If it was the before time and I felt like this I could work today (if it was a work day).
I very much doubt I’ll be contagious by the 16th. Still, we were planning a visit to my in-laws over the long weekend and MIL has cancer so we canceled. That’s inside 10 days and she certainly doesn’t need to be dealing with Covid on top of everything else.
I don’t believe I’ve had Covid…yet. Your timeline and thoughts seem reasonable. IMO, the isolation/quarantine guidance has felt conservative all along; perhaps the omicron guidance is also conservative by design.
Agreed. I’m trying to see if I can schedule a test at another location and am getting hung up because it’s asking me for information on the child I’m trying to register.
I’m not trying to register a child, unless you consider me a 40-something year-old child anyway. But I don’t think that’s what they mean.
It’s a drug store, not a pediatrician’s office or anything.
CDPH AFL 21-08.6 Guidance on Quarantine for Health Care Personnel (HCP) Exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and Return to Work for HCP with COVID-19 (1-8-22) From January 8, 2022 until February 1, 2022, HCP who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 and are asymptomatic, may return to work immediately without isolation and without testing, and HCPs who have been exposed and are asymptomatic may return to work immediately without quarantine and without testing.
I’m at day 5, and I tested negative. But… I feel pretty under the weather. It might be psychosomatic, it might just be because I’m worried about my mom. But I think I will stay hiding in my bedroom for a few more days, until I feel well. Unless I feel a lot worse, I will “go to work” tomorrow, because I can do that from my bedroom. But that “cook for the Temple’s meals on wheels program” on Tuesday is looking dicey. And the “socialize Tuesday night” is almost certainly a “nope”.
Yeah that’s exactly what I did after I spent a week in a hotel room with somebody who tested positive, and I developed mild cold-like symptoms. Finding a testing center with appointments was a pain, so I just self isolated. In either had COVID, or some other bug. Knowing for sure kind of made no difference.
I mean I guess a positive test is a data point which marginally helps local and national health agencies.
