You may be contagious longer than you think, despite the CDC’s guidance.
. The research only fuels the ongoing discussion about how long people should isolate after they contract the virus, experts say.
, an infectious disease expert at the University of Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, who was not involved with the new study, tells SELF. Remember, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is still considered to be relatively new—meaning there’s a lot that experts don’t know or totally understand about it yet.
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