{"id":19441,"date":"2022-01-31T07:52:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T12:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19441"},"modified":"2022-01-31T07:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T12:52:53","slug":"its-day-6-of-covid-and-a-rapid-antigen-test-comes-back-positive-stay-home-say-virologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19441","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Day 6 of Covid, and a Rapid Antigen Test Comes Back Positive. Stay Home, Say Virologists."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rae Ellen Bichell for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does it mean if a person\u2019s rapid antigen test result comes back positive after five days of isolation due to covid-19? According to the experts, that person is most likely still carrying a viral load high enough to infect others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnytime you\u2019re positive by one of these rapid at-home covid tests, it means that you\u2019ve still got a really high level of the viral protein, and most experts are interpreting that as a high level of virus present in your nasal passage,\u201d said Matthew Binnicker, director of clinical virology at the Mayo Clinic and president of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/rapid-antigen-test-isolation-guidance\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/rapid-antigen-test-isolation-guidance\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"104\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rae Ellen Bichell for Kaiser Health News) What does it mean if a person\u2019s rapid antigen test result comes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-technology","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19442,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19441\/revisions\/19442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}