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Can you test negative and still be contagious? That would obviously make the potential ratio much larger.
by vannevar 7y ago
Can you test negative and still be contagious? That would obviously make the potential ratio much larger.
- dboreham 7y agoAs I understand it, yes. The probability of that, I'm not sure. This is where I found information about the nuanced properties of the test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGiOi7eV05g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGiOi7eV05g It's from there that I realized the test doesn't seem to be intended to be used in the way most people think -- it's supposed to be a "if a patient arrives in hospital with pneumonia, do this to tell if they have covid" tool, not a "if some random person wonders if they have it or not, run this test" tool.