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I think it's worth pointing out that while this is great tech, it's still relying on antibody detection, and the incubation period between infection and antibod
by alexholehouse 15y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that while this is great tech, it's still relying on antibody detection, and the incubation period between infection and antibody production can be anywhere from 6 weeks to 6 months. However, you yourself become infectious from a couple of days after infection, and in fact there's often a really high viral load in these early few weeks/months before antibodies start being produced.
Long story short, for the 2-6 months after you first become infected the test would return negative, but you'd still be highly infectious.
- araneae 15y ago40 TIMES more infectious. To emphasize how important this is. Some researchers estimate up to 1/2 of new infections are from people who would test negative in this test.