How Bad Is a Second (or Third or Fourth) Case of Covid?

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How Bad Is a Second (or Third or Fourth) Case of Covid?
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Just as a reminder to people if you are feeling ill, don’t fucking come into work, please.

Fucking boomers that legitimately love in person. Had one coworker that had covid and was back in office 1 week after saying they had it. I immediately turned around and went home, telling my team I felt ill out of nowhere. So fucking selfish.

To be fair CDC recommends 7 days after onset of symptoms.

At least 7 days have passed since symptoms first appeared if a negative viral test* is obtained within 48 hours prior to returning to work (or 10 days if testing is not performed or if a positive test at day 5-7)

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/guidance-risk-assesment-hcp.html#:~:text=At%20least%207%20days%20have,of%20fever%2Dreducing%20medications%2C%20and

It does seem a bit rushed to me

That's for healthcare workers, for the general public it's only 5 days, as long as you subjectively feel you're improving and don't have a fever. It's stupidly fast, especially since around 20% of people are still PCR+ after 5 days.

While there are good reasons healthcare workers should be more cautious, they're certainly not the only ones who should be, so that discrepancy between what is recommended to the general public (and by extension becomes company policy) and what they recommend to healthcare workers seems pretty bad.