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cord-352111-frk319q1	Woodruff, Amelita	COVID-19 Follow up Testing	2020-05-11		.txt	text/plain	633	47	64	• 70% of patients met CDC guidelines for release from quarantine & still tested (+); • The average time from onset of symptoms to negative testing was 19 days.  70% of patients met CDC guidelines for release from quarantine & still tested (+)  The average time from onset of symptoms to negative testing was 19 days Dear Editor, There is some uncertainty regarding the incubation period of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The non-test-based strategy recommends that COVID-19 patients can discontinue self-isolation when they have been afebrile for 72 hours without anti-pyretic medications, have improvement in respiratory symptoms, and have at least 10 days elapse since symptoms started, recently increased from 7 days. The test-based strategy requires resolution of fever without the use of anti-pyretics, improvement of respiratory symptoms, and two consecutive negative COVID-19 nasopharyngeal swabs collected ≥24 hours apart. In our patient population, the average time from the onset of symptoms to negative testing is 19 days.	./cache/cord-352111-frk319q1.txt	./txt/cord-352111-frk319q1.txt