What You Should Do When You Have Symptoms and Negative At-Home Test Results

What You Should Do , When You Have Symptoms , and Negative At-Home Test Results.
'The New York Times' recently offered
readers a helpful guide for taking home
COVID tests and what the results mean. .
In particular, coming up with a negative
result can leave some lingering uncertainty. .
Rapid home antigen tests identify pieces
of viral proteins in a swab of your nose. .
They are designed to determine whether
there are infectious levels of the virus.
This means that lower levels of COVID
could still result in a negative test. .
If you test negative and you have symptoms,
don’t assume you’re negative. Assume that
the virus has not had an opportunity to grow
up yet. The symptoms might mean your
immune system is just triggering
a very early warning, Dr. Michael Mina, Chief science officer
for eMed, via 'The New York Times'.
If you test negative and you have symptoms,
don’t assume you’re negative. Assume that
the virus has not had an opportunity to grow
up yet. The symptoms might mean your
immune system is just triggering
a very early warning, Dr. Michael Mina, Chief science officer
for eMed, via 'The New York Times'.
Dr. Michael Mina, chief science officer
for eMed, suggests people get tested
on the first day of symptoms. .
If you end up with a negative result
but symptoms continue, he advises
that precautions should still be taken. .
If testing daily isn't feasible, Dr. Mina suggests
testing every 48 hours and taking
precautions until symptoms are no longer present. .
If you have symptoms and continue to test negative, the chances that you’re infectious with Covid have gone down a lot. But you probably should wear a mask that day because you have something, Dr. Robert Wachter, Chair of the medicine department
at the University of California, San Francisco,
via 'The New York Times'