{"id":209377,"date":"2020-10-02T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T19:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=209377"},"modified":"2020-10-02T15:27:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T20:27:57","slug":"covid-contagion-time-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=209377","title":{"rendered":"How long is the COVID contagion time line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0 How long could I be contagious before a positive virus test? Studies have shown that people may be contagious for about two days before developing COVID-19 symptoms. Experts say right before developing symptoms is when people are likely the most contagious. People who never develop symptoms can spread infection, too. That\u2019s a problem because many people would never seek testing unless they developed symptoms or knew they\u2019d been exposed. But there\u2019s a more complicated part to this question: What if someone knows they were exposed but their virus test comes back negative &#8212; could they still be contagious? Maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0 How long could I be contagious before a positive virus test? Studies have shown that people may be contagious for about two days before developing COVID-19 symptoms. Experts say right before developing symptoms is when people are likely the most contagious. People who never develop symptoms can spread infection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209388,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209377\/revisions\/209388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}