Sorry to hear that, hope it's not too bad. How many times now? Trouble is, people act like it's gone now, so that's bound to make it easier to spread.
Twice officially, but my ex and my daughter are both nurses and are convinced the tests don't always show positive when they are. The problem is that when it flares up, because of my age (62) and because I got sepsis 6 years ago after a cancer op, a whole host of neuralgia, shingles, cold sores, and various other dormant viruses pop back up again. I know conspiracy theorists are blaming the vaccine, but I'm convinced the virus itself just gets shoved into corners of your body until you get run down (I lost my 12-year-old Lab recently, and have been doing strenuous exercising and dieting to lose weight before my holidays) and the ****er comes back. I'm sure this pestilence will see off the arse end of us Baby Boomers. Perhaps we deserve it.
I've had it twice, once right at the beginning well before the vaccine was developed. That was by far the worst one, and took me two years before I was even close to normality. Even now I'm still affected by things which are probably due to that first one. The second, when I was vaccinated, was much less severe.
When I got it the second time (there were no tests the first time) the thick red line was unequivocal. Though I agree they can't be trusted completely there was certainly no doubt with that one.
The second time I had COVID, the test was negative the entire time. I started to feel better and the rest turned positive
but the tests are only looking for proteins shed by virus and are simply not very accurate. First the person has to administer the test properly and half don't. second the virus has to be there long enough to shed antigens and be dying third the test sample actually has to have virus in the first place which is not assured given the different variants liking other places. I have not bothered at all with antigen tests as they simply are not worth the cost. if you get the headache and the fever you know full well and know what to do. the fact ****ing idiots come to work and scum employers are forcing people into work sick again or people refuse to "miss out" on social events means we all get it. pcr will find dna but is expensive. antigen is not that accurate and frankly is less than 50/50
Ahh... I knew I was forgetting some obvious people on here! Good ones... I'll open it up again and run them through.
I believe, if you have corona there is less than 50% chance of it being detected by an at home kit. That's probably what he meant by less than 50% chance of being right. Of course a lot of people who get negative results really don't have it so technically those results are correct. But, if you do get a positive result it's almost certainly correct... The are not many false positives. Tldr: Negative means nothing lots of false negatives.. Positive means you almost certainly have it.
yeah. it's less than 70% accurate for the pre delta variants if you have it and are actively infectious. if you are not infectious it's not going to give a result as you won't be shedding proteins. it's the same as any test. the result is not definitive, it only states the same did or did not contain the substance being sought.
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