Скачать или смотреть VERIFY: Can you test positive for COVID-19 long after you're contagious?

Vaccinations are ramping up, and there are more movements towards getting back to normal life. Health officials have said COVID-19 testing and contact tracing will still be important as that happens.

But are there situations when a test might be misleading about a person's infectiousness?

THE QUESTION

Is it possible to test positive for COVID-19 long after being contagious?

THE ANSWER

Yes. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states it's possible for testing to pick up the virus weeks after first getting ill.

Dr. David Priest, an infectious disease specialist with Novant Health weighs in on how that can happen.

"PCR testing is really sensitive," Priest said.

That sensitivity can lead to faulty assumptions about a person's contagiousness.

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