Hello,
my girlfried and I live in a long-distance-relationship where we sometimes don't meet for weeks. Since the corona outbreak, we've both been very careful, wear masks in public and shifted 90% of our work to home-office.
Lately, after we hadn't seen each other for a while, she got sick at her place, had herself tested for Covid-19 ... and the test was positive
After one week of really feeling severly ill (not life-threatening though), she is slowly getting better, but still self-quarantaining at her place, with running nose remaining and the frightening aspect of having completely lost her sense of smell and most of her sense of taste.
Meanwhile me, hundreds of miles away, luckily still 100% symptom free all over this time, without being tested, however. (Actually she likely got her infection long after we met the last time)
Now we do not really know how to handle this entire situation, especially when to meet again??? Local health department tells her, she'd be absolutely negative and 100% non-contageous as soon as 24h after her running nose (or other symptoms, apart from the not smelling which doesn't count as infecteous) have dissappeared. Can anyone confirm that? It's a weird situation when the only person in the world that you personally know has this infamous Covid, is your girlfriend who you wanna kiss, share the same bed and be together with... I personally must admit that I'm afraid of that virus, both for me (probably not having had it yet) and of course for my girlfriend where it hopefully doesn't do any damage on the long run.
So I have a collection of questions:
my girlfried and I live in a long-distance-relationship where we sometimes don't meet for weeks. Since the corona outbreak, we've both been very careful, wear masks in public and shifted 90% of our work to home-office.
Lately, after we hadn't seen each other for a while, she got sick at her place, had herself tested for Covid-19 ... and the test was positive
After one week of really feeling severly ill (not life-threatening though), she is slowly getting better, but still self-quarantaining at her place, with running nose remaining and the frightening aspect of having completely lost her sense of smell and most of her sense of taste.
Meanwhile me, hundreds of miles away, luckily still 100% symptom free all over this time, without being tested, however. (Actually she likely got her infection long after we met the last time)
Now we do not really know how to handle this entire situation, especially when to meet again??? Local health department tells her, she'd be absolutely negative and 100% non-contageous as soon as 24h after her running nose (or other symptoms, apart from the not smelling which doesn't count as infecteous) have dissappeared. Can anyone confirm that? It's a weird situation when the only person in the world that you personally know has this infamous Covid, is your girlfriend who you wanna kiss, share the same bed and be together with... I personally must admit that I'm afraid of that virus, both for me (probably not having had it yet) and of course for my girlfriend where it hopefully doesn't do any damage on the long run.
So I have a collection of questions:
- Is someone who has had Covid-19, really 100% non-contageous right after the symptoms are gone for 24h? What about those stories where people start feeling better but get a real fall-back weeks and weeks later? And what about contageous people who didn't have symptoms in the first place?
(Getting a second test, negative then, is not so easy where she is living)
- Is there any symptomatical treatment that helps getting well sooner, and especially bringing the sense of smell back?
- Can somebody who once had it (thus has antibodies) still become infected (without getting sick themselves) and be a carrier of the virus to other people?
- Might the appartment/bed of a Covid patient (where they self-quarantaine all the time) still be contaminated with the virus? Is a special cleaning procedure neccessary or is ordinary laundry, and vacuum cleaning sufficient. As the virus is said to be high contageous I wonder if it remains in kissen fillings and mattresses for a while...?
- What would you do in our situation? When would it be safe to meet each other again without protective equipment and distancing?
Should I maybe do a voluntary antibody test (maybe if I once had with no symptomps like some people)
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