If she got her results back in the same day then she got the rapid test which is generally less reliable. This is why there were a high number of false positives in the NFL/college football this year.
Yep and if OP tested after 9 days of no taste or smell, it is highly possible that the disease was not in his system still. I'm not advocating that the testing is perfect by any stretch, but if you get tested too early or too late, you may have results that are not consistent with what you expect.
The whole recalculating the numbers was absolutely maddening. The numbers scared the daylights out of people for months. Then they change up how they count the positive tests. So were the initial numbers skewed upwards or the most recent numbers skewed downward? I am in no way an expert but damn a little common sense here seems pretty obvious.
I would definitely have the blood tested for Covid antibodies.
I don't know a ton about SC, but they were apparently reporting the percentage of people with positive results rather than reporting the percentage of positive tests. So you'd get a good bit higher percent positive rate if people with positive tests are getting more than one test, as they typically do when you take a rapid test. I did just read that SC is going back and recalculating historical percentages. Also, the reason they changed it is to be better in line with federal guidelines from the CDC, which just about every other state has been using as far as I know.
That is exactly how I interrupted the article I read. Which leads me to ask "Why count the results differently in the 1st place"?
False positives are actually not common with the PCR test. False negatives a little more common. The risk of a false negative changes based on when you test. I know false negatives are more likely with the rapid tests.
They advised her correctly. My brother got a test on the day he started a fever. Over the next couple of days he lost taste, had massive headache, cough developed, congestion, nausea, O2 leveles declined, etc. Doctor told him his test would certainly come back positive. Four days later he was in worsening condition and got his test result back. It was negative. His doctor told him it was certainly a false negative and to get tested again. He did. In the meantime by day 7 he now had all of the symptoms and his oxygen dropped below 92%, the number the doctor told him to go to the ER with. He couldnt keep anything down and was confused. He went by ambulance and when he got there was basically in a fight for his life. Kidney failure, liver enzymes 7 times high normal, DDimer numbers through the roof, indicating clotting, advanced ARDS in both lungs with O2 now in 80s, etc. They did a COVID test, which they had to wait to get results back, and started him on COVID protocols. The next day after being admitted to the hospital, day 8, he got his second test result back from day 4 as positive. The hospital test also came back positive the next day.
I tested negative after having a few days of minor sinus issues. The negative test was followed by 12 straight nights of a fever and night sweats. This happened on Dec 18th thru Dec. 30th. Last monday I tested positive for antibodies. My sense of smell still has not returned. My uncle spent 10 days in the hospital after receiving a negative test. A year later and testing is still not reliable.
I don't know when the test was developed, but the accuracy rate is only 50% at best, and I've read in some more aggressive articles that even 50% is "rounding up". The test is worthless, utterly worthless.
I'm more convinced than ever that I had it back in November/December of '19. I had never been sick like that before, not from a severity standpoint, but the duration. I was sick for about a month, and I was seriously worried that I would not be better in time to go to NOLA.
Or...follow me here....maybe it’s possible your employee just caught a bad case of that W2 flu. If so, he’ll be back in a couple days after she burns through that refund.
I kept noticing on the % positive reporting for SC it would be around 3 times what Georgia and NC were. I knew that couldn’t be accurate. Turns out, as you stated, they were using very different methods in GA and NC than SC was.
That was me...got the rapid and regular test done at the same time...both came back positive.
I'm not discounting the deaths of anyone that died from covid not matter what that number may be, but we have more than that many people die of heart disease and and cancer individually every year. Why are we not spending trillions of dollars a year on these diseases that cause more deaths every single year? What we are doing in most states is absurd.
So uhhh.... you just described the problem ... that’s why where we are...
Hope your brother's result are good after the next scan.
COVID19 is the #1 killer in America each of the last 3 months, well ahead of heart disease which is the next leading cause of death.
The numbers from 2020 would suggest that the flu did in fact pack up and go home.
A week ago my doctor told me he has not seen one case of the flu since October.
