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If it helps - you did the right thing. My fiancée and I have been extremely cautious, we don’t go anywhere, we order amazon fresh, we work from home, etc. She
by fossuser 6y ago
If it helps - you did the right thing.
My fiancée and I have been extremely cautious, we don’t go anywhere, we order amazon fresh, we work from home, etc.
She had to go into work a few times last week to build her machine (she’s a Mechanical Engineer), she wore a mask at all times, avoided interaction with other people.
Out of an abundance of caution she got a PCR test afterward - it came back positive.
Now we’re wearing masks in the house and she’s staying in her room. She’s asymptomatic thankfully, an initial test for me came back negative but it’s too early to be definitive (and we were with each other prior to her positive test result).
It sucks - the anxiety was already fairly extreme prior to this, but now waiting around to see if I develop symptoms and seeing story after story of random healthy person dying is really upsetting.
False positive probability with PCR is quite low, 0.5% to 2%.
Whatever the stress of social isolation, being isolated apart from your SO while waiting to see if you develop symptoms is 10x times worse. People don’t take it seriously because they just don’t think it’ll happen to them.
- rubicon33 6y agoSorry to hear about what you and your fianceé are going through. That really sucks, especially considering that you have both been so careful. Pretty unfair, life. I hope you both weather it fine. Some people seem to experience almost no symptoms; I hope that is the case here. Maybe she only got hit with a small viral load given how safe she has been... in which case hopefully her body is able to defend and create antibodies. Would be curious to hear how things evolve for you, if you’re willing and able to share. Good luck.
- divbzero 6y agoWishing the best for you and your fiancée. It sounds like she’s okay for now and hoping it’s just a quarantine and things will be back to “normal” for you.
- asadkn 6y agoThanks for sharing the story. Just something interesting you might want to read into. False positives can be much higher than 0.5-4% figures, depending on how you look at it. Out of the positive results, about 13% [1] and 25% [2] were false. In [2] 400 out of 1570 positives would be false. I have seen as high as 40% being false in other publications. [1] https://www.aacc.org/science-and-research/scientific-shorts/2020/false-positive-results-in-real-time-reverse-transcription-polymeras https://www.aacc.org/science-and-research/scientific-shorts/... [2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/895843/S0519_Impact_of_false_positives_and_negatives.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
- fossuser 6y agoThanks - that’s better than what I’d seen, definitely helps knowing that’s more of a possibility.