covid staff returning to work
Discussion
Afternoon all.
Not sure if anyone can help on here but I'm struggling to get anywhere from official channels.
We have a member of staff who caught Covid on Christmas day and was confirmed by symptoms a few days later. Advice for him and us was to isolate for the 14 days.
After this time he was symptom free and would now be eligible to come back to work. however, he then had another test which was still positive. His doctor and NHS111 has advised him that this would be dead cells and he could still be giving a positive reading for months to come and 'should' be OK to come back to work. note the 'should be' and not 'is'.
There seems to be conflicting advise from what we can see and cant get anybody to confirm if he is good to come back.
To summarize, symptom free now for around a week and three weeks since initial positive result.
We want him to come back as soon as possible, but also need to protect our other staff members and the company of course. He is unable to do the work at home.
Our HR company and insurance company just go through the standard issue flowchart, understandably I guess. We haven't seen one where there is the curveball of a positive test, post illness thrown into the mix, otherwise the guidelines would be that he'd be good to come back.
I don't suppose anybody on here is in the know and can offer any advice?
Thanks all.
Not sure if anyone can help on here but I'm struggling to get anywhere from official channels.
We have a member of staff who caught Covid on Christmas day and was confirmed by symptoms a few days later. Advice for him and us was to isolate for the 14 days.
After this time he was symptom free and would now be eligible to come back to work. however, he then had another test which was still positive. His doctor and NHS111 has advised him that this would be dead cells and he could still be giving a positive reading for months to come and 'should' be OK to come back to work. note the 'should be' and not 'is'.
There seems to be conflicting advise from what we can see and cant get anybody to confirm if he is good to come back.
To summarize, symptom free now for around a week and three weeks since initial positive result.
We want him to come back as soon as possible, but also need to protect our other staff members and the company of course. He is unable to do the work at home.
Our HR company and insurance company just go through the standard issue flowchart, understandably I guess. We haven't seen one where there is the curveball of a positive test, post illness thrown into the mix, otherwise the guidelines would be that he'd be good to come back.
I don't suppose anybody on here is in the know and can offer any advice?
Thanks all.
If symptom free we are allowed to return to work without a repeat pcr test. You can get a positive result for up to 90 days after testing positive. It isn't recommended to test people before they come back for this reason. I found this https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/retu... not sure if it helps answer your question
Does this help? It seems to back up what the Doctors and NHS111 are saying.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/people-rein...
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/people-rein...
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