10 days after testing/tested positive.
Dear all,
Please tell me which of the following sentences is correct. If all are incorrect, please correct them.
1) According to the new Covid protocol, you don't need to be tested 10 days after testing positive.
2) According to the new Covid protocol, you don't need to be tested 10 days after tested positive.
3) According to the new Covid protocol, you don't need to test 10 days after testing positive.
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cat navy 425 1) According to the new Covid protocol, you don't need to be tested 10 days after testing positive. This is grammatically correct English, but the meaning is unclear to me, or it is unclear to me why one would want to say this. You test positive, let's say on May 1.
- cat navy 425 1) According to the new Covid protocol, you don't need to be tested 10 days after testing positive.
- This is grammatically correct English, but the meaning is unclear to me, or it is unclear to me why one would want to say this.
- You test positive, let's say on May 1.
- Then, on the day of May 11, you don't need to be tested.
- Why?
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cat navy 4251) According to the new Covid protocol, you don't need to be tested 10 days after testing positive.
This is grammatically correct English, but the meaning is unclear to me, or it is unclear to me why one would want to say this. You test positive, let's say on May 1. Then, on the day of May 11, you don't need to be tested. Why? Why stipulate this
0cat navy 425you don't need to be tested
You might need "you no longer need to be tested again" to address the flaw that GPY pointed out. I think you're trying to say that the old protocol had that requirement, but the new protocol does not.
CJ
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