[tomrod]

It means you're infectious, and measurably so.

[Fjolsvith]

But not for life. The infection ends. And, lately, with the likelyhood of death being greatly, greatly reduced.

[tomrod]

I anticipate that it would be common knowledge that viral shedding is known to end (i.e. people get better or die). Outside a negligible amount of cases, is this not common knowledge?