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#didnt realize how low the accuracy was om those until tonight and it has filled me with a very huge sense of Dread
fxaa · 5 months
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If you have covid symptoms and are testing negative for everything, do not be so confident that what you have is just a cold. Unless you have multiple negative PCR results or confirmation it is something else theres still a pretty good chance its covid, considering the false negative rate on those (their accuracy peaks at 80% and is as low as 0% first day of infection).
If you are sick with anything cold symptom-y at all right now, stay home if you can and please mask up with a well-fitting n95 if you absolutely need to go out. Consider wearing a mask again right now even if you aren't having covid symptoms, to protect yourself and to protect others from asymptomatic transmission, considering we are in the second biggest surge of the pandemic.
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