According to specialists, once the disease has passed, it is not necessary to carry out a test to determine if the person continues with the virus.
For nine days, between January 3 and 12, 2022, a family of five father, mother and three children, suffered from COVID-19. Four of them became one PCR test to detect the disease.
On January 14 they decided to hold a quantitative antibody test, which is in blood and is used to find out if a patient had the disease or what stage it is in. Determines IgG-IgM.
The IgG positiva indicates that the infection has passed and is no longer contagious, which is a requirement for medical discharge. The IgM positiva indicates that he is currently infected and contagious.
It is a test used to determinemonitoring of COVID cases, specialists explained.
For Paola Arévalo, specialist in emergency and disaster medicine, the average effect that a virus has on the body is between seven and fourteen days.
He added that, according to new medical guides, after five to seven days, even from the onset of symptoms, it can already be said that the person is not in a contagious stage.
Clarify, however, that not all cases are the same because the virulence It depends on the response capacity of each organism.
In the case of those who have no symptoms He added, it is difficult to realize when they stop spreading or when they were infected.
“In people who have mild symptoms, about seven days, and it can be considered as a discharge, that is, they can even return to their work activities, safely, once 48 hours have passed, without symptoms, it is like a safety range for symptomatic people,” he said.
The specialist considers that once the disease is over, it is not necessary for the person to undergo some kind of test showing negativity for coronavirus.
“The big problem is that the doctors at work continue to asking for tests to give medical rest (…); If I have respiratory symptoms, I have a fever, I went to a party (…) and I was exposed to those people with COVID-19 for more than fifteen minutes, what will it be? It doesn’t have to be pancreatitis, it has to be COVID,” he said.
On January 11, a person over 50 years old was diagnosed with coronavirus through a PCR test. His symptoms included loss of smell and taste. On Wednesday the 19th a new test was carried out it was negative.
Patients who suffered two and up to three times from COVID-19 tell of the marked differences in symptoms depending on the variants and the application of vaccines
Edward Castro, president of the Ecuadorian Society of Pulmonology, indicated that the guidelines have been changing over time and with the first cases of COVID-19 and the first variants, the virus had more “affinity” for the lung.
Therefore, he added, the isolations and the period in recovery of the patient were longer, with a minimum of 21 days.
“They have gone down to fourteen days and now with the new variant of omicron, which has been shown to be more contagious, it has less affinity for the lung but rather for the upper respiratory tract (…), therefore it resembles a flu in most cases”, said Castro.
Generally, the contagion time is shorter, it is between three and five days, while earlier variants were seven or more days.
Studies conclude that booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine improve protection against the omicron variant
Castro suggested that the isolation must be maintained for ten days in those patients who do not have symptoms, despite – he added – that the World Health Organization (WHO) already indicates that those who are improving can strictly isolate themselves for five days at home and the remaining five days they can go out to their activities, but maintaining and observing biosecurity measures.
While the people who continue with fever should remain isolated.
The specialist added that the person who ten days have passed and it is asymptomatic, it does not need PCR to reintegrate its normal activity.
For Castro, fifteen days after infection the person could already be vaccinated against COVID-19. Once you have returned to your normal life and if the person wishes to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to Arevalo, it could be fourteen days later. (I)
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