People who have had mild to moderate COVID-19 can come out of isolation after 10 days and don't need to be retested before going back to work, new CDC guidelines say.
People with severe COVID-19, many of whom are hospitalized, could be infectious for as long as 20 days, though most of them are not.
"While I would say that a completely asymptomatic patient is less likely to transmit the disease, they certainly can," Shapiro said.no confirmed cases of anyone being reinfected with COVID-19, CDC said. Reinfection is something immunologists and infectious disease researchers are all looking for, said Dr. Otto Yang, a professor of medicine and chief of infectious disease at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.Two things may be happening that make it look as if people are being reinfected, the CDC document said.
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