{"id":5161,"date":"2023-11-07T19:45:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T01:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2023-11-07T19:45:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T01:45:11","slug":"i-just-got-over-covid-but-still-feel-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/07\/i-just-got-over-covid-but-still-feel-awful\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Got Over Covid but Still Feel Awful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/07\/well\/covid-symptoms-sick.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Symptoms can linger for days or weeks after testing negative, even for those who don\u2019t develop long Covid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: It\u2019s been a week since I tested negative for Covid, but I don\u2019t feel totally better. Why am I still sick?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rapid test is finally, blissfully, negative after a week of dark red positives. You\u2019re technically over Covid \u2014 but the virus doesn\u2019t seem to be over you, as fatigue, coughing or a general sense of \u201cblah\u201d persists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If symptoms linger for four or more weeks after a negative test, that\u2019s the point at which they could first be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/long-term-effects\/index.html#:~:text=Long%20COVID%20is%20broadly%20defined,after%20acute%20COVID%2D19%20infection.\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">identified as long Covid<\/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for some people, there\u2019s a murky middle stage: Your Covid test is negative and you still feel sick, but you aren\u2019t technically in long Covid territory yet, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease physician at the University of California, San Francisco. \u201cA lot of people bounce back really quickly\u201d after a Covid infection, said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis. But for many people, \u201cit takes them two, three, four weeks to fully recover,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Symptoms can linger for days or weeks after testing negative, even for those who don\u2019t develop long Covid. Q: It\u2019s been a week since I tested negative for Covid, but I don\u2019t feel totally better. Why am I still sick? The rapid test is finally, blissfully, negative after a week of dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-07-at-20.43.45.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}