We don't isolate covid patients in the hospital after 14 days for mild to moderate illness. 21 days for ICU illness. They aren't contagious even if they test positive. The thought is that they are just shedding dead virus.
The likelihood of recovering replication-competent virus also declines after onset of symptoms. For patients with mild to moderate COVID-19, replication-competent virus has not been recovered after 10 days following symptom onset (CDC, unpublished data, 2020; Wölfel et al., 2020; Arons et al., 2020; Bullard et al., 2020; Lu et al., 2020; personal communication with Young et al., 2020; Korea CDC, 2020). Recovery of replication-competent virus between 10 and 20 days after symptom onset has been documented in some persons with severe COVID-19 that, in some cases, was complicated by immunocompromised state (van Kampen et al., 2020). However, in this series of patients, it was estimated that 88% and 95% of their specimens no longer yielded replication-competent virus after 10 and 15 days, respectively, following symptom onset.
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I can second this. I am a dialysis RN. The physician DOES NOT need to be on site. An experienced dialysis nurse knows what to do in an emergency without a doc present. Having a doc present sounds good on paper but its a needless expense. 99% of the time when a patient goes downhill, its the nurse running the code, not the doc. That's because running a code is all standardized and does not require a doc. This prop will just increase expenses.