I'm sorry to hear you got sick. I don't know what the test kits are like in your area but the ones here give a false positive roughly 50% of the time, but negative tests are 100% accurate.I hope that you are one of the many that 3xperuwnce mild symptoms and bounce back quickly- and more importantly, your family doesn't also become ill.Please keep us informed on how you are doing!Def
I think it's worse to get a false positive than a false negative. If you get a false negative then you KNOW you are safe. If you get a false positive it means you should take efforts to keep people around you safe, and encourage you to get a more serious test.Either way, it's really only the best of an overall crappy situation.Def
The above has confused me. I thought a false negative means you actually have COVID, but the test says you haven't got it (false = untrue). So because you believe the test result you go around behaving as if you haven't got it, thus infecting more people. This seems very bad to me.
That’s my line of thinking too - a single line might really be a double line but maybe timing of the test was too early or whatever reason, so you go around thinking it’s just flu/allergies/cough+colds due to the season, not realizing you’re spreading stuff. Anyway, that’s the reason why preggy people need RT-PCR test. What my wife was praying for was the possibility that my double line is just me fumbling as a first timer doing a self test and that it’s actually a covid-free single line. Not sure what are the chances of that happening but our priority is keeping the kids (14 & 12) safe and sane thru all this. Anyway, fever has broken already so I’m getting temperatures below 37C (98F). Pretty normal! Heck at this point if I didn’t get that double red line in the antigen test, I’d probably be having breakfast with the family then doing groceries with my wife! I do have a bad sore throat and have more phlegm discharge. Here’s something in my mind - do I smother my LMs and flashlight with alcohol to prevent them from being fomites? Ethyl alcohol? Lysol spray? Anyway, happy weekend to all and stay healthy!
It's very possible that I have it all confused.I got my booster on Friday afternoon, and like all vaccines it has kind of put me out of service for a while. I'm on the mend now, but these things always mess with me.Def
Thanks Zoidberg My 14yr old started to have flu symptoms and fever a couple hours ago…. He’s now in isolation with me to hopefully spare the 12yr old and my wife. It all started with a sore throat…..I think we’re gonna have someone do RT-PCR test on us within the week.