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#741
I traveled to India from the US to spend the holidays with family and for my cousin's wedding. We had a big party on Christmas day. After that, half of us came down with Covid. Luckily, my sore throat lasted only 4 days. But it has been a week since I first tested positive, and the test I took today was still positive. Because of this, I can't get back to the US. They do say if I get a letter from a doctor saying I'm recovered and no longer contagious, I can get back into the US. I'm going to try this, because I have no idea how long the PCR test will show a positive. I think it could be up to a month.
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My own experience with lateral flow tests I tested positive until day 10 and I’ve been negative since. That said it can happen people can test positive by lateral flow for some time later in some cases, again it’s dead virus particles which haven’t been cleared out of your system I believe. A letter from a doctor verifying recovery sounds like a good plan if they’ll accept that. Hoping all goes well and glad you haven’t been too poorly! |
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What are your numbers like? In my town it’s now almost 2,500 per 100,000 which is super high. Every day I’m hearing of someone new testing positive even 3x vaccinated. I have no idea if herd immunity is even a possibility any more however. I’d like to think so but I’m not convinced. |
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#744
Down and Lonely - Your experience is why, even though I would love to take an international trip, I am taking a wait and see attitude right now. I am not overly concerned about getting the virus by this point. I've been vaccinated and I am relatively low risk as far as getting a severe case. However, there just seem to be so many things that could go wrong.
I have heard of tourists that test positive here being sent to government hotels until they test negative. If I traveled, to return to the country, I would have to get a negative PCR before leaving. Then, they test people again on arrival. If that is positive, I would have to isolate for 14 days. At least I would be allowed to do it at home, but 2 weeks without ever leaving the house is a lot. Also, my country has already closed the borders twice. Citizens and legal residents were allowed in, but coming back was chaotic for them. Airlines slashed the number of flights, so people had a hard time getting a ticket. I wouldn't want to experience that. Ugh, things are trending up here. A lot of tourists from the US have brought in Omicron. Supposedly, they are being isolated, but with Omicron now reaching community transmission. I guess some people are leaving isolation, or they gave it to transportation/hotel workers while going to their isolation location and those workers passed it on to other people. The ICU and death numbers are much lower than the last time we had close to 4,000 cases a day, which is positive. The government just opened the most important land crossing with Argentina. I don't think that is the greatest idea considering they are having over 100,000 cases a day there, with about twice our population. They are already talking about a fourth dose here starting with the immunocompromised. My birthday is coming up. I spent it last year locked down. I had hope of being able to go out for a meal this year, but my husband is kind of nervous about the higher case numbers. Maybe we will get take-out Peruvian food. I hope you are able to get back home soon! Last edited by rechu; Jan 07, 2022 at 11:02 AM.. Reason: added information |
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@rechu really sorry to read you’ve got omicron in Chile now, yes it’s less fatal especially with good levels of vaccination but can still cause chaos by sheer numbers of infection. Here we have businesses who’ve had to shut down temporarily because too many staff are absent and unwell.
Also sorry to read you’re not able to celebrate your birthday in the way you would have liked. I hope your Peruvian takeout is good and you’ll have a nice time all the same. I hope next year you’ll be able to celebrate properly in the way you wish. It’s my 50th in April so I’m hoping things will be better as my last 2 birthdays were lockdown ones. |
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#746
Yes, unfortunately the US government won't accept a lateral flow test to get into the country, only PCR. But they do say you can get a doctor's note as an alternative, so I hope that works.
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Our local incidence is 511 per 100.000 so not quite as bad as the UK yet. But it's going up quickly. I wonder if maybe with omnikron, there will be no avoiding it anymore unless you live like a hermit. In South Africa the omnicron wave is apparently over already and I heard the UK has probably reached its peak as well. Maybe it's not so bad to get this wave over with quickly, especially if it's not as deadly as previous variants. |
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#748
Yes they said we’d reached the peak a while back then it went up again but I keep thinking this has to go down eventually.
Every day I hear of at least a few more friends it acquaintances coming down with it in a way that never happened before. I’m just hoping this is the last hurrah. |
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#749
@Discombobulated - I hope you are able to celebrate your birthday in style this year. My 50th was last year. I had saved money to to go Europe. Obviously that did not happen. I still have the money sitting in a mutual fund, at least.
I was lucky that my birthday in 2020 was during a lull between the protests and riots here and the arrival of Covid. My husband and I went to a place in town for drinks and sushi. |
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I wouldn't be surprised if they are creating false positives, considering the number of people who have tested positive. Also, my cousin got his test soon after contracting the virus and tested negative. When he got back to the US, he started experiencing symptoms, so he did have the virus, but it was too early for the test to detect it. Meanwhile, I really feel that I am recovered and not contagious, but I can't go back to the US.
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I'm so sorry @downandlonely - I hope you can at least enjoy the extra time you have with family while there. I can't imagine what it feels like to be blocked from coming back to the US! This reminds me of the old 2020 times when the pandemic first began. |
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I'm getting to a point where I kind of just want to get getting infected over with. Not so much that I would go to a corona party or stop wearing a mask I'm still concerned about long covid. And I don't want to be the one to bring covid into the office. Or maybe I've even already had an asymptomatic case, but I guess that would be unlikely with how little I've been around people the last 2 years. I wish I knew how I was doing anti body wise. Do I really need a booster? There might be more restrictions coming up in Germany where places that are currently open to vaccinated & recovered people will also require a negative test (on top of the vaccination certificate) - except for people who have received a booster. It's so much - getting a shot every 3 months? And I've been lucky wih very little side effects. Stil I'd be worried about how my body.would react to a next shot. |
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#754
I imagine we might need a shot every 6 months for a while.
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#755
My grandson has covid. His unvaccinated asshole father is the reason why. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ "I carried a watermelon?" President of the no F's given society. |
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#756
I will be thinking of your grandson. I hope he will be ok.
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#757
Sorry to read about your grandson and hope he will get well soon. Our friend’s family got it and the 2 year old was most poorly of them all but he’s back to health now.
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So if you wanted you could buy a blood antibody test kit and it would tell you if you have antibodies- I don’t think any of them specify the level though. Of course there is also T-cell response and other different reactions- the tests don’t measure those I think. I’m getting my 2nd test kit sent out in next few days, so hopefully there should be antibodies from natural infection too now but I’m fully expecting to just be told I have antibodies which won’t give me much useful detail. Still, hopefully the results will be useful to the study. Anyhow I’m getting my booster on Wednesday anyhow, I’ve heard quite a few tales of unwell ness with number 3 but my son and husband were fine with theirs - curiously neither of them caught covid off me either. Another mystery. |
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#759
Actually the people I know had unwell ness with shot number 2 but everyone was fine with the number 3 booster. Me, I just a a very slightly sore arm, with the booster, that was it.
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