If this is how our health leaders are planning on stopping the virus, we have trouble. But if you are positive 10 days after your last cough, you won’t spread the virus. So let’s try to understand this-if you swab positive without symptoms, you may be able to spread the virus. They also state a large number of Covid cases are spread by asymptomatic people who are swab negative. To allow a cessation of isolation in the middle of a pandemic is no time to be using “evidence exists” as your defense.Įxhibit 2- The European version of our CDC has gone on record that there is uncertainty about the requirement of a negative re-swab (also called “test-of-cure”) although they also concede a 10 day wait is reasonable.Įxhibit 3- Johns Hopkins -a respected medical source- endorsed the CDC guidelines, yet also points out there is no way to tell if a swab positive test indicates an infectious or non-infectious virus. That study will not be able to be published for many months. Unfortunately, there has been insufficient time to do a broad scale prospective or double blinded study to show this definitively. Let’s look closer at why the “10 day rule” is Shiznit.Įxhibit 1- For starters, the CDC states that there is evidence to release a patient at 10 days with no symptoms. Many infectious disease experts are showing evidence it’s safer to release a patient from isolation with a negative swab than just using the 10 days benchmark. Yet it takes 7-21 days to re-swab negative once symptoms appear. It is true that evidence exists suggesting the virus loses its penetrance after 10 days. The CDC and health departments say Covid positive patients are no longer contagious and can stop isolation after 10 days of no symptoms. We will tell you the Shiznit and then give you the facts. So let’s clear up some false information out there this time, no games. There was some constructive criticism of the blog, feeling we were “playing games” with a deadly disease. ![]() In an earlier blog we played “Fact or Shiznit?” a true or false exercise regarding Covid myths. In the book, the dangers of false information were warned of repeatedly. In the novel 1984 (written in 1949) George Orwell predicted that technology would develop and allow corrupt governments to manipulate and spy on their population. “There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
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