Just got back from dropping off a test kit at my daughter & future son in law's house in Farmingdale. Was supposed to get together with them on Sunday but the son in law came down with a fever & my daughter was beginning to feel ill as well.
Waiting to here back on the results.
If the home test comes back positive make sure they get the real test
If the home test comes back positive make sure they get the real test
Just sent message - they both tested negative - son in law tried to get an appointment for a test they gave him a time on 12/29
It’s always been driven by fear and panic
Unwarranted fear and pAnic
Yes yes I know 800k died blah blah blah
A tiny percentage of the world population and a tiny percentage that’s getting smaller by the second of ppl that have contracted it
now your worried about the economy after two years of over hyping this your worried now
too late
Just sent message - they both tested negative - son in law tried to get an appointment for a test they gave him a time on 12/29
Thats good iff they continue to not feel good get them to push for a faster test date the home tests arent 100%
the panic over so many positives, even for those who are hardly sick at all might
Restaurants closing, flights cancelled.........see it happening?
Everyone is calling in sick even if they "think", they might be sick....
Thats funny wasnt that the right thing to do when this started?
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
If the home test comes back positive make sure they get the real test
Actually, you got it reversed. The home antigen test has a very high positive predictive value when you're symptomatic, so it it's positive, you're sick. Its negative predictive value isn't great if you're asymptomatic.
So if you test negative and have no symptoms, but someone in the house has it or were in close contact with someone who definitely got it, then go get the PCR test.
You can scroll up a few hundred pages or got to the science test to learn "Why"...
Actually, you got it reversed. The home antigen test has a very high positive predictive value when you're symptomatic, so it it's positive, you're sick. Its negative predictive value isn't great if you're asymptomatic.
So if you test negative and have no symptoms, but someone in the house has it or were in close contact with someone who definitely got it, then go get the PCR test.
You can scroll up a few hundred pages or got to the science test to learn "Why"...
Funny Guy at work took the home test was negative but when he took the real test he was positive
Actually, you got it reversed. The home antigen test has a very high positive predictive value when you're symptomatic, so it it's positive, you're sick. Its negative predictive value isn't great if you're asymptomatic.
So if you test negative and have no symptoms, but someone in the house has it or were in close contact with someone who definitely got it, then go get the PCR test.
You can scroll up a few hundred pages or got to the science test to learn "Why"...
I'll gladly chalk it all up to the usual government incompetence. Nobody offers any of the above. My wife and kid tested positive and there was nothing further done. No in-depth, no varietal testing, just quarantine for X days, yadda, yadda. My test was negative. Was there any QED or whatever further testing? Nope.
Yet the statistics pile up.
And then we wonder why everybody distrusts everything about this whole mess. The monumental incompetence and corruption surrounding this whole thing is appalling.
But no worries. According to the conspiracy theorists we'll all be dead in another two years or so because of the jab.
Carry on as usual.
I'll gladly chalk it all up to the usual government incompetence. Nobody offers any of the above. My wife and kid tested positive and there was nothing further done. No in-depth, no varietal testing, just quarantine for X days, yadda, yadda. My test was negative. Was there any QED or whatever further testing? Nope.
Yet the statistics pile up.
And then we wonder why everybody distrusts everything about this whole mess. The monumental incompetence and corruption surrounding this whole thing is appalling.
But no worries. According to the conspiracy theorists we'll all be dead in another two years or so because of the jab.
Carry on as usual.
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Hang in there. If I'm reading between the lines correctly, I take it you're frustrated because you weren't retested because of your negative result, while the wife and kid were positive. Assumed you were all tested using an in-home Antigen test, correct? Did you retest yourself or try to get retested? If additional testing was unavailable for some reason, yeah, the standard "Quarantine" rules would apply and that would be that.
One of the big holes in the home testing strategy is actual result reporting. Very few, if any, report results, be they negative or positive. FDA is trying to link home tests with using a phone APP to get results so the data goes automatically to state officials, but I think they're taking a leak on the windward side of the boat. I've run over a dozen tests at home and have never reported any of them to the State CDC. FYI, I just ordered 3 home antigen test kits from Sam's Club with home delivery. Not sure if you still can get them there if anyone is interested.
As a matter of protocol, nowhere near every positive result goes on for typing. It's complex testing that can only be run in a few special labs. Each state takes a representative sampling and sends them out, that's why you see the reported numbers as percentages. I'm not even sure if your sample was sent out for variant testing you would be able to find out with the result was. That adds a level of complexity from the sample chain of custody that is not necessary.
Now IF there ever are different treatment regimes for the different variants, then it would be critical info, but since that is not currently the case there's no need right now.
So a friend had to get a real covid test yesterday hes having a medical thing done this upcoming Tuesday they want to make sure he doesent Have Covid at the time of his medical procedure Does this make sense?
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