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There is no one standard for how long you could be spreading the virus, but some people can remain contagious for more than a week. COVID patients are", PhD, a professor of molecular immunology at London Metropolitan University, told Insider.
The U.K. Health Health and Security Agency , which helps inform COVID policies in the country, released data from its modeling study at the end of December, which gives insight into thefor most patients. According to their data, about 5 percent of people who tested positive for COVID are still infectious after 10 days of self-isolation. And at least 1 percent might still be contagious 14 days after testing positive or developing symptoms.
"During the course of a SARS-CoV-2 infection, viral load increases from 1 to 2 days before symptom onset, then peaks at symptom onset and in the first 5 days, indicating that this period has highest infectiousness potential," the agency's report states. According to the CDC, the risk of being contagious for longer than a week is only higher for certain people."The likelihood of recovering replication-competent virus is
from onset of symptoms, except in people who have severe COVID-19 or who are moderately or severely immunocompromised," the agency says.
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