A member asked:

Day 7 of having covid.i pretty much just have nasal congestion loss of some smell and cant taste much. im still quarantining sorta. what if i still have congestion on day 10? i didnt start coughing until yesterday. will i still be contagious?

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Dr. Laurence Badgley answered

Specializes in General Practice

International scientists seem, to me, to lack firm advice about when a COVID patient is no longer infectious. I recently studied a 80 y.o. doctor who became ill over one day & had a + COVID test. By day 8, bad symptoms had dissipated. Serial COVID tests became unwaveringly negative on day #11. It seems to me a confident clinical statement is that on day #11 “the patient became non-infectious”.

Answered 12/31/2022

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