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I’m going to assume some off the antigen tests were faulty or could not pick up the new variant.
by christkv 5y ago
I’m going to assume some off the antigen tests were faulty or could not pick up the new variant.
- richardwhiuk 5y agoLikely false negative, or taken prior to symptom incubation, or somehow the guest evaded taking one at all.
- checkyoursudo 5y agoOr just user error, though that could fall into a technical reading of "guest evaded taking one at all".
- _Microft 5y agoAntigen tests detect something different from the spike protein und can find Omicron variant cases just fine. You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_rapid_antigen_test#New_COVID-19_strains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_rapid_antigen_test#Ne...
- tapland 5y agoIt was self reported testing before a Christmas party. Few people have done any test like that in Scandinavia and willingness to lie about taking it is pretty high in my experience.
- Symbiote 5y agoAt least in my social and work circles, it's pretty normal to take a test before attending a larger gathering, or meeting more vulnerable people. But then, Denmark has an average of 17 tests per person, the highest in the world by some margin. Norway is 1.6 per person, Finland 1.5 and Sweden 1.4.
- cycomanic 5y agoBased on what evidence you making that statement. For myself living in Sweden I can say that almost everyone does a self test when they have even the slightest of symptoms. Also I would argue of all places in the world, Scandinavia is probably the place where one would find the lowest propability of lying about a test.
- tchalla 5y agoRapid antigen tests have a relatively high rate of false negatives.
- rebuilder 5y agoI know someone who just got a positive PCR test and still got two negatives on at-home test kits.
- headsoup 5y agoI think you mean false positives? Or are they just bad all-round?
- gattilorenz 5y agoNo, false negatives: you're tested as negative but you, in fact, have the virus. This is common for rapid antigen tests, and especially so if self administered. False positives are not tipically a problem for this kind of tests. It's like the pregnancy test: if you see the stripe, you're very, very likely pregnant. If you don't see it, you can't rule it out with the same certainty.
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- hugh-avherald 5y agoRelatively high yes, but with emphasis on the relatively; I would be surprised that there would have been more than 3 false negatives.
- cygx 5y agoNote that one of the issues with rapid tests is that they only work reliably once you become symptomatic - however, you may already be infectious about two days before that...
- lps41 5y ago