How long is someone with COVID contagious?

WBZ-TV's Dr. Mallika Marshall reports.

[@amreenaym786]

i finally just got covid and it sucks I've never been this sick

[@sub-zero_]

same I just got it 3 days ago, how are you doing?

[@zero0fnine]

Me too. Hope you all are recovering and feeling better soon.

[@joezb5134]

Just got it started getting symptoms last night

[@alimo4610]

Honestly it’s way better than strep throat 😂

[@carlt9265]

I had it twice the first time i was so close to going to the emergency room i was that ill i collapsed twice,after like day 5 i started coming around a little bit god help an older person with lung problems its virtually curtains for them, the second time i had it was not so bad

[@mysticallavish1360]

I just got covid first time and I've been so sick. Fever lasted half day it's gone. Body aches lasted 2 days it gone. But congestion is bad, runny nose, dry cough, and sore throat got worse on day 4. I'll go pick up a humidifier today and Vicks cream. I can smell and taste. I've been eating soup, oranges, grapes, and strawberries. My nose gets plugged up so I sit up a lot at night. I've never been this sick in my life, it's day 4. Day 2 I really felt horrible. Really hate the congestion now. Hope yall don't ever get it. If you do, speedy recovery to you.

[@chrisbuentello9023]

Same here first time ever. The body aches were the worst.

[@narrowroadtraveler4167]

I figured out I got Covid when everything I ate started tasting like bleach 😳 and now I'm about 4 weeks in fever is Gone but everything smells weird the outside air smells like a chemical is in the air to me as well as My inside apartment some kind of weird chemical like smell it's everywhere I taste it in the soda in the food it's so strange and wierd the food and drink taste the same along with that chemical smell and taste

[@BirdFromYakiVegas]

Yep same here accept no cough-runny nose or congestion & im on 4th day🤞🏽....🙏🏽rayers to you getn through this nasty pandemic

[@narrowroadtraveler4167]

@@BirdFromYakiVegas Hang in there 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

[@I.SuckatSpeedrunningRBLX]

I’m on 1st day, I hate it

[@mochreag8807]

My husband and I took every precaution during the pandemic because I was a caretaker for my 93 year old father. Neither of us ever got it. But now…here at Christmas 2023 we are quarantined. We are both very sick. Doing better today, but for a couple days I felt like I was dying…a headache fit to split my skull, shivering chills, body aches! I urge everyone…even the lady who thinks it’s just a common cold…to take care, if not for yourself, then at least for those around you who could be compromised in some way.

[@COLLAR01]

Saw you post, same happened to me Christmas eve, do ya think maybe those mosquito droppers were dumping covid on us, so many people got it at the same time in my area.

[@kathleenfox941]

same happened to me too. it was awful. @@COLLAR01

[@larslee5341]

Never got Covid during pandemic closures. Feels like a very intense, but very short flu/strep throat

[@tanyahewlett6189]

I've just tested positive too , but what is alarming is I went to the doctors 4 weeks back was not tested for covid even though they took me through to an iceolation room.? Sent me home 2 more weeks later I'm still poorly and I rang the doctor today did a test it's positive what did they even ask me to go down for ? When they say nothing they can do so now I'm worried if I've spread it to some one on way to the doctors , I've had all jabs got underlying chest problems and astmaha and I am really struggling with this 😪 hope you all get well soon

[@charlesschauer8927]

Still sounds unclear

[@JoeBowser-qe6wg]

Why when i look tjid up nothing but forin come up?¿

[@Misty-gc6bq]

I finally got COVID. I woke up sick on New Year's Eve with a fever. After a month, I only have partial sense of taste and smell. That symptom is so weird.

[@pjdudomine4744]

Did you ever get your sense of smell back to normal?

[@narrowroadtraveler4167]

​@@pjdudomine4744I'm just now getting over the fever part but everything smells and tastes like some kind of chemical has been added to the air and food it's so strange

[@Misty-gc6bq]

@@pjdudomine4744 It's been many months later and food just doesn't taste the same. Coffee tastes funny and meats disgust me.

[@s.m5356]

I have covid and hardly any symptoms only a soar throat when can I get close to my baby again??

[@davidkruse4030]

Man ask your doctor. Asking strangers on a comment section of KZbin is not sound

[@bg5827]

A coworker came into work Monday sick with what they thought was allergies. More than half the people in that hallway and the floor below had symptoms and half of staff were out sick

[@leventhumps3861]

Well… my daughter just tested positive. So there’s no way I’m quarantine Quarantining her. We (The family) just have to accept that we’re going to be sick and take it as it comes. Not one member of my family has ever had COVID. In honestly surprised that we’ve never caught it considering all the trips, and places we’ve gone since this all started. I go to the gym daily and never caught it, and honestly kind of thought I might be immune. Well, time to put my immune system to the test and see if I’m really the chosen one! LOL

[@worldview730]

Heard the rapid is less accurate than the PCR test

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

Me too because I am a qualified lesbian

[@MilkmanCR]

Got a rapid that said negative and then pcr a day later confirmed I had it

[@worldview730]

Check with your primary care Doc. these tests are so tricky depending on your antibodies. My doc. told me not to even rely on them, to wait & look for the symptoms. @@MilkmanCR

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

@@MilkmanCR I am a woman

[@liamwilson12345]

I’ve had it 4 times and spent a total of a month in bed

[@carolschnaiter580]

Cvs COVID test kit results

[@SankarParmar-on2tk]

Hi

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

I am a qualified lesbian too

[@sirlucius94]

Maybe 😭

[@vicoleg]

Did you find out if you got the Delta or the Omicron variant?

[@pulverize3]

So it's like a strong flu, you'll probably be safe as long as you don't crash your car and the coroner says the cause of death was covid despite the obvious car crash.

[@maryharris8939]

Common cold