Yes good point.
If I wasn’t feeling well, I’m just going to assume I have Covid and not go anywhere, especially to their house
I’ll take the test just to see what it says but most likely wouldn’t trust a negative result if I’m feeling sick
Hope your dad is ok
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Originally Posted by cabmando
Saw this and wanted to share a recent experience that got me looking at these rapid at home tests. My dad called saying he was up all night coughing and he felt weak. I brought over one of my Abbott Binaxnow tests and helped administer it since I figured my mom and dad's eyesight might not be good enough to accurately count the drops of reagent. Anyhow, we do the test, I go outside to do some work for my dad, come back 15 minutes later because my mom says the line didn't change color, it did, showed negative. So I take him to the walk in clinic to get his oxygen level checked and to have someone listen to his lungs. I ask the nurse practitioner to do a PCR test explaining that we had just done a rapid at home test that came back negative. Sure enough! PCR comes back positive.
So I start looking into the at home tests because from everything I understood about them, they were supposed to be most accurate when symptoms were present.
https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/blog/home-covid-tests
https://www.healthline.com/health/how-accurate-are-rapid-covid-tests
Point being, if you're not feeling quite right, you probably shouldn't trust an at home test to determine whether or not to go to your parent's house for a visit. Just my .02 |