I am so sorry and I hope you feel all better soon. Rest and recover well. I hope you can see your family next weekend.
Thank you!
I am so sorry and I hope you feel all better soon. Rest and recover well. I hope you can see your family next weekend.
Our plans went down the tubes on Tuesday when I started feeling under the weather. I’m 3 days in with a fever running as high as 103. Some respiratory symptoms, but primarily fever and body aches,
I’m really disappointed as this would have been our first Christmas in our new home. But no way am interested in passing this along to anyone else.
For what it’s worth… I am vaccinated, my husband is not. He is also feeling under the weather but his symptoms started a day earlier and are much milder. He does not have a fever, just a sniffle. Go figure!
So we will spend the next week together resting, staying hydrated and hoping that we can see our adult children the following weekend
My daughter was negative with a self-administered antigen rapid test (I think it was day 5 post exposure) a few hours before she started experiencing COVID symptoms.
She took a nap the afternoon after her negative test and woke up sick with a sore throat. The next day she was positive by PCR. I am sure the rapid tests help, but they only catch about 60% of non-symptomatic or pre-symptomatic infections.
She and her s/o are off quarantine and better. We will all get together tomorrow for dinner with my Mom.
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Diagnostic accuracy of rapid antigen tests in asymptomatic and presymptomatic close contacts of individuals with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection: cross sectional study
Objective To assess the diagnostic test accuracy of two rapid antigen tests in asymptomatic and presymptomatic close contacts of people with SARS-CoV-2 infection on day 5 after exposure. Design Prospective cross sectional study. Setting Four public health service covid-19 test sites in the...www.bmj.com
Our nephew tested positive this morning... .. at least he tested himself before going to his grandparents (he has mild symptoms)
It’s like a pregnancy test though: it’s not going to be positive until there is enough to turn it positive.
A doc on med Twitter said you are supposed to test daily for up to 10 days after an exposure, though she admitted that was unrealistic. But that is the “what you should do in an ideal world…”