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Who is still testing for Covid, and why? If you're sick, stay home. What useful information does a positive Covid test give you?
by WheatMillington 2y ago
Who is still testing for Covid, and why? If you're sick, stay home. What useful information does a positive Covid test give you?
- adw 2y agoIf you're at risk, you're probably better off taking the antivirals than not, and it lets you know whether you should ask your doctor for some?
- geor9e 2y agoIf you live completely alone and don't leave home, sure, testing doesn't really apply. In my house, if someone is sick and visiting the kitchen every couple hours hacking up a lung, but won't spend 3 minutes to crack open one of those free government tests, that would be a bit rude. Catching any virus sucks, so I'd appreciate an FYI about if the air they're exhaling has the virility to infect an average of 6 people or an average of 1 person (or whatever the latest research has determined the wildly high R-value of infectiousness to be of covid vs a cold). The difference affects how active I need to be to avoid catching a bug.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoIt still kills like a thousand people a week in the US and that is, still, almost certainly a dramatic undercount. It remains far far more dangerous than the illnesses it can resemble. I spend a lot of time around disabled people whose risk profiles can accept masked interaction with a cold, but not covid.