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I disagree. I got a home test positive last week and plenty of my friends did as well. I am in the UK though, our home tests might be different.
by shmel 5y ago
I disagree. I got a home test positive last week and plenty of my friends did as well. I am in the UK though, our home tests might be different.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoIt's possible the Omicron variant is throwing a spike into things. I'll lay odds the tests are for Delta (or earlier) variants. I was just talking to a friend that is sick with it. He had a negative home test on Monday, and went in for a PCR test, immediately after. That test showed he had a fairly significant viral load. He and his wife are high-risk, and had the monoclonal antibodies treatment. Not sure they will do much good.
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- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoI just talked to the chap that got a personal test come up "negative," and he talked about it to the people that gave him the PCR test. He said that the home test has two lines in the display (I think it's a piece of paper, but I'm not sure). One is a control, and the other is a result. He said that the control line is very clear, but that the result line tends to be fairly faint, so it's entirely possible that people are getting positive results, but aren't seeing the line. Sounds like a UX design flaw.