If you were one of the many people to catch COVID in this summer’s BA.5 surge, you might have noticed the little positive sign on your antigen tests sticking around for a week or more — even if you were already feeling better.
Dr. Seth Cohen, medical director of Infection Prevention at UW Medicine, said it is not uncommon for people with subvariants of omicron to stay positive for a week-and-a-half or even longer.
“We know that about 50% of people will still be positive sometime between day five and day nine after infection,” he said. “And then there’s still [a portion of] people after day nine that will
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