Hi! I just received this morning my documentation of recovery letter. So. My trip in Europe next week is good. I have both two vaccines and booster. Now my question, is one documentation of recovery letter enough to show before I come back to USA or I need to apply again to get an documentation of recovery letter?
Thank you
If your positive test was within the last 90 days and you meet the requirements listed by the CDC regarding the letter, you should be good.
Section: what if I recently recovered from covid.
People who have recovered from COVID-19 can continue to test positive for up to 3 months after their infection. CDC does not recommend retesting within 3 months after a person with COVID-19 first developed symptoms of COVID-19 (or the date their sample was taken for their first positive viral diagnostic test if their infection was asymptomatic).
If you have had a positive viral test on a sample taken during the past 90 days, and you have met the criteria to travel, you may travel instead with your positive viral test results and a signed letter from a licensed healthcare provider or a public health official that states you have been cleared for travel according to CDC’s travel guidance. The positive test result and letter together are referred to as “documentation of recovery.”
A letter from your healthcare provider or a public health official that clears you to travel, must have information that identifies you personally (e.g., name and date of birth) that matches the personal identifiers on your passport or other travel documents. The letter must be signed and dated on an official letterhead that contains the name, address, and phone number of the healthcare provider or public health official who signed the letter.
Also to add. I got positive in Covid 5 weeks ago. I'm coming back to USA two and a half months after I got positive.
Is it ok, if I got my recovery letter in quickmd rather than the clinic that I got my positive test?
Thank you!
Is it ok, if I got my recovery letter in quickmd rather than the clinic that I got my positive test?
Yes. The copy of the positive test result plus the letter from quickmed is considered the "document of recovery"
Also to add. I got positive in Covid 5 weeks ago. I'm coming back to USA two and a half months after I got positive.
You have to count......if it is more than 90 days from the day of your first positive test to the day you return, your letter is not valid. You will have to test. If it's less, you're good to go.
Correct me if i'm wrong. Because i'm getting confused, because i'm also counting the weeks. I got positive on the 11th of may and i'm returning to the USA on August 1st. Counting all those days, it's been 83 days since i got my positive results right?
@Enryu
If you have had a positive viral test on a sample taken during the
past 90 days
On the day you fly back to the US (Aug 1, 2022); your positive test (May 11, 2022) is 83 days old which is within the 90 days limit. So the 'documenation of recovery + positive test report' you have should still be valid for your fligh home. You should be ok!
Also make sure important information are included in the Documentation of Recovery.
= Your personal information:
= Covid positive test result information:
= Licensed Healthcare Provider or Public Health Official to issue Doc. of Recovery:
= State clearly that the person has recovered and has been cleared to travel
Here are my take-always from coming down with Covid recently on a trip to the UK:
1, Getting getting a negative test result after catching Covid is problematic because some people test positive for days, weeks, and even a couple months afterward so that if you are relying on getting a negative test to get you on a plane back to the U. S., this may be difficult.
Accordingly, we opted for working toward getting a Recovery Certificate. What is a bit counterintuitive to this process is getting in and having a formal test at a testing agency to establish the fact that you have Covid on such and such date. Even though this test will likely be positive, it’s important to get it as soon as reasonably possible, following public health guidelines, as this effectively “starts the clock” on the minimum ten day recovery window.
After ten days, a recovery certificate can be obtained. I think a U. S. based doctor can issue this as long as the letter is on official letterhead, contains the U. S. Passport number, and references the specific test result taken in terms of date and location. This could be emailed to you from your doctor but the problem with this approach is that you have to think through the process of how the info is going to be presented to the airline.
If you are staying at a hotel with community computer and printer, in order to print out the document, you will have to log on to your personal email and risk putting your email password out in public. Yuck! To me, this is like drinking out of a common cup. However, unless you prevail upon the clerk in the hotel to print it out for you, you can be stuck. Also, if your physician leaves out your passport info, the letter might not be accepted.
Consequently, we opted for a web based medical. There are a few of them but the one I thought stood out and had good reviews was Zoomdoc. For about $70, they would send you a Certificate of Recovery in a form that the Airlines recognize and accept. The same rules apply: you need to upload your passport and positive test result in .jpeg format (I bought an app on line to help me do this)
Within a few hours of sending my application, I was whisked a Recovery Certificate that was easily printed at the hotel printer because it had a separate URL address. In other words, I typed in thewww.http:// address into the computer and my recovery certificate was accessed in the same way I would access cnn.com. Easy! I printed a couple of copies and my blood pressure probably decreased by 10 %!
One of the things we like to do at the end of the trip is to spend the last night before the flight home at the airport so we have a less hectic time on day of the flight. We walked over to the airline the day before so we could make sure our documents were in order and they were. Another 10 % drop in my blood pressure!
One of the things I realized was that the gatekeeper on this process for U. S. re-entry is not the UK, not the folks back in my home airport but the airline at the departure airport. They want you on their airplanes so they are looking for ways to help you, not be overbearing by over-scrutinizing your documents. That is not to say that one can be casual and sloppy about not complying with the requirements but to let you know that the inspection of the documents will likely not be adversarial.
We got on the plane and that was the end of our Covid experience. There was no checking of Covid status at our arrival airport.
2daniel - such helpful information - thanks! In preparation of my trip to Europe in 4 days, I called the trip insurance company to ask about the steps (hoops to jump through) if I get Covid and need to file a claim. They suggested, as you’ve mentioned, that I use an online medical source to get my letter of recovery after having well-documented my positive test result to start day “zero” in the 10-day waiting process that the US requires for re-entry. I created an account yesterday with Teladoc. Their log-in page is now one of my saved bookmarks in my browser and I’ve also got the app on my phone and iPad. There’s another service called QuickMD that some forum posters have mentioned.
