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If you’ve been infected with COVID-19, you’ll hopefully feel better within a short amount of time, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) now allows you to end isolation within five days (followed by wearing a mask for five more days).
However, people who have recovered from COVID can still test positive (particularly on more sensitive PCR tests) for up to three months after their initial infection, even though they are no longer contagious. This presents a problem for otherwise healthy travelers who need a negative COVID test to return to the United States after international travel.
Fortunately, the CDC allows travelers to provide “documentation of recovery from COVID-19” in lieu of a negative COVID test to reenter the United States.
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