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There is also always the risc that you contacted it since the last test, so the period in which you can feel to safely not be infectious is rather short.
by dathinab 6y ago
There is also always the risc that you contacted it since the last test, so the period in which you can feel to safely not be infectious is rather short.
- fragmede 6y agoThat risk is much lower if it takes 15-minute to get the test results, as opposed to tests that take an unknown amount of days/weeks to get results. The linked article does not discuss in depth what kind of testing took place, only that it did.
- dathinab 6y agoYes but not if the short tests work reliably. The best not yet on the market short tests we have do have a lot sensitivity but high specificity, i.e if they say you have it you most likely have it but if they say you don't have it you can't rely on it at all. (As as I know) This is still somewhat useful as it turns out they still do a reasonable good job wrt. Sensitivity iff you are highly infectious. So it might be useful to at least "weed out" the most infectious people before grant events or e.g. school, which would probably already be a great improvement I guess.