COVID question

[CTCruiser001]

We are sailing 7/22...Just tested positive for COVID. Fully vaxed with booster...What are chances my vacation is FUBAR'ed? 17 days before sailing...

 

Thanks,

[tallnthensome]

Order or grab some home tests and test every day in about 7 days. Nobody here knows the true answer to your question.  

[Colorado Buffalo]

Do some searching to make sure I'm right but pretty sure the magic number is 10 days from getting positive Covid test. After that I believe you can get a Certificate of Recovery from your doctor.

Make sure the positive test was PCR and not rapid antigen or one of the at home ones.

Edited July 5, 2022 by Colorado Buffalo

[HBCcruiser]

I tested negative (using an Antigen test) 6 days after testing positive. I'd say your chances are great! Make sure you are testing negative with a home antigen test BEFORE taking the official cruise test. DO NOT test using a PCR test. This may have a false positive  result. 

[julig22]

You might be fine, just don't take a pcr test for boarding. Rapid test should be negative within a week or so for most people.

However, if you take a PCR test now, you can ask for a letter of recovery from your doctor and you can use that for boarding in most places.  Details in the testing FAQs .

Edited July 5, 2022 by julig22

[phillygwm]

7 minutes ago, tallnthensome said:

Order or grab some home tests and test every day in about 7 days. Nobody here knows the true answer to your question.  

Actually, someone should not be showing positive on an antigen test after 17 days.  On a PCR they may (so don't take that one!)  But Antigen shows positive for roughly a week.

[bluesea777]

20 minutes ago, HBCcruiser said:

I tested negative (using an Antigen test) 6 days after testing positive. I'd say your chances are great! Make sure you are testing negative with a home antigen test BEFORE taking the official cruise test. DO NOT test using a PCR test. This may have a false positive  result. 

 

Well, we (party of 4) tested negative after 11-13 days after we tested positive after our March cruise.

 

PCR tests are more sensitive - they test positive on the ONSET of the virus in tour body, often a few days before the antigen, and continues to test positive even after you test negative on antigen. So you are not correct about the False Positive on PCR tests - they are more accurate than the antigen ones.

 

Two friends of mine went to London in December for the New Year on vacation. They took pre-departure PCR tests - negative for the flight, okay. A few days into the vacation one felt awful so they took own antigen tests - both positive. So they isolated themselves in hotel room. After a week, took antigen - still positive. Then after a few days later they tested negative! But at that time Bermuda needed negative PCR tests for the return .... so they went out to have PCR tests - positive! So they stayed another week in London! They finally came back to Bermuda 2 weeks later than their expected return date! 

 

 

[HBCcruiser]

17 minutes ago, bluesea777 said:

and continues to test positive even after you test negative on antigen.

Sorry, I did not express myself correctly - THIS 👆 is exactly what I meant to say. The OP should use the antigen test for her/his cruise test rather than the PCR because after having COVID people may test positive even though they are no longer contagious. 

[mking8288]

When our group returned from the Joy cruise in early May, some of us home tested positive on Antigen Rapid ... My vaxxed & double boosted BIL with mild symptoms belonging to a high risk category and went to his PCP, prescribed anti-viral Rx and subsequently he Antigen tested negative in about 5 days, much quicker than the SIL in about 7 or 8 days (asymptomatic.) & wasn't taking anti-viral.  It took DW and myself more than 12 days to come up with Antigen negative on our home swab, but it remained positive at Day #8 and Day #10 - good thing we had a good stockpile of free home testing kits.  

 

USPS will offering to ship 8 free tests (round #3) per household address - and free home test kits as qualified & available from one's own health plan ... stockpile & restock them as appropriate ... BA.5 and BA.5 subvariants are here in the metro NY/NJ/CT area with rising numbers, skewed by home testing results not being shared, reported & documented by public health compiling the data.   Deja vu all over again, perhaps and maybe, not - another cruise coming up soon for us, now that we are back from a 8 days trip to Canada & back last week (with few masking in close public quarters) and home tested clear & negative. 

 

Hopefully, OP are insured for travel.  

[hallux]

Your question is answered in the second item in the FAQ on the sail-safe page - 

https://www.ncl.com/sail-safe

 

• Individuals that test positive within 90 days of their scheduled embarkation date are exempted from the pre-arrival testing.
• They must have one of the below acceptable forms of COVID-19 Recovery (dated no less than 10 days and no more than 90 days (US) & 180 days (EU) before the date of embarkation) available during check-in.
  • For European Citizens, this would include an EU Green Pass or comparable certificate. 
  • For all others unable to present an EU Green Pass (i.e., US Citizens) a doctor’s note, plus a laboratory-confirmed PCR test result with the proper information (i.e., Name, Date, Date of Birth, Positive Result, etc.)
    • COVID-19 Recovery must be dated no less than 10 days and no more than 90 days (US embarkation) & 180 days (EU embarkation), documentation must be available during check-in.
• Bermuda government does not allow certificate of recovery in lieu of negative test result.

2 hours ago, julig22 said:

However, if you take a PCR test now, you can ask for a letter of recovery from your doctor and you can use that for boarding in most places.

It appears the OP is going to Bermuda (per their difficult-to-read forum signature), per the info I posted above the COR is NOT acceptable.

[julig22]

1 minute ago, hallux said:

It appears the OP is going to Bermuda (per their difficult-to-read forum signature), per the info I posted above the COR is NOT acceptable.

Exactly why I specified in most places because I didn't know their destination.😉

[Ottawa_Cruiser]

Only a proctored rapid antigen is required. I would say your chances are excellent as a rapid test won't pick up a positive 17 days after testing positive. 

[rhapsodybluezz]

I tested positive on the Friday before my Sunday cruise. I did start on Paxlovid on Saturday and by Wednesday I tested negative. All antigen tests.

 

[CTCruiser001]

OP here, thanks to all for your feedback!