Posted on 06/12/2022 9:52:51 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
In early May, 27-year-old Hayley Furmaniuk felt tired and a bit congested, but after rapid-testing negative for the coronavirus two days in a row, she dined indoors with friends. The next morning, her symptoms worsened. Knowing her parents were driving in for Mother’s Day, she tested again—and saw a very bright positive. Which meant three not-so-great things: She needed to cancel with her parents; she had likely exposed her friends; a test had apparently taken three days to register what her vaccinated body had already figured out.
Tests are not and never have been perfect, but since around the rise of Omicron, the problem of delayed positivity has gained some prominence. In recent months, many people have logged strings of negatives—three, four, even five or more days in a row—early in their COVID-symptom course. “I think it’s become more common,” says Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease physician at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
No one can yet say how common these early negatives are, or who’s most at risk. But if SARS-CoV-2 is rewriting the early-infection playbook, “that makes it really scary,” says Susan Butler-Wu, a clinical microbiologist at USC’s Keck School of Medicine. “You can’t test and get a negative and actually know you’re negative.” Misleading negatives could hasten the spread of the virus; they could delay treatments premised on a positive test result. They also buck the current COVID dogma: Test as soon as you feel sick. The few days around the start of symptoms are supposed to be when the virus inside you is most detectable and transmissible; we built an entire edifice of testing and isolation on that foundation.
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I think that when the virus was designed the ability to avoid a positive test result was built into it to hasten the spread of the virus. The designers of the virus knew this thus, they found that anal swab testing was very accurate so that is what they do. The rest of the world spent years doing nasal and oral swab tests while the virus spread rapidly.
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We have a bunch of the kits sitting in the medicine cabinet and none of them are indicating positive results. Weird huh?
Just assume you’re going to get it soon and go get that 5th booster /s
I had coronavirus 3 weeks ago. I was told that, according to the CDC, I had to quarantine but could go out in public with a mask on after 5 days even though I was positive and after 10 days, I could go out in public without a mask even if I continued to test positive because it might just be antibodies, not the active virus.
What kind of fresh hell...???? THIS is why it doesn’t stop - because they have no idea what they are doing!!!
The early cry for testing at the very beginning of this was the scam. Testing companies making bank tons of positive tests after quick interviews. Then the hype for endless vaccines. Hit rock bottom so any positive bleep by Biden can be touted as brilliant.
A lot of times the first sign of Covid is “gastro intestinal upset” for days without many other signs.
If there were NO tests, and you started feeling ill, common sense says to restrict contagious contacts and activities. A negative test when you are sick with Something doesn’t mean anything. For that matter, a Positive test means nothing when you are Not sick.
Enjoy being GMO. Gene therapy is not a vaccine, and immunity is not the goal.
Chasing Covid ghosts.
I know people who have tested positive 3 separate times and have been slightly ill from “covid” - after being triple-vaxed.
COVID is so meaningless. Now go focus on something meaningful and make sure something like COVID that has less than a 1% mortality rate is never used for tyranny and to destroy our nation again.
The home rapid tests can be very deceiving. The second bar that shows up if infected can be so faint that you can barely see it. I got sick, took the home test, the second bar was almost invisible, but I took a photo of it, and showed the doc, and they said it was likely that I had covid, (i knew i likely had it because i got quite sick), so they ordered 2 tests, one rapid, one send out, and both showed infection, so all three tests showed it, but I almost didn’t see the home test result that is how faint it was. Not that knowing meant anything. I wasn’t going anywhere for at least 5 days anyways because of how crappy I felt (I have the luxury of staying home if I want), but having a couple of comorbidities, I was a bit concerned about it, but in reality I could jusy stayed home, not tested, and been fine most likely. My only concern was that I have asthma and copd and emphysema, and a couple,other conditions not lung related- so I wanted to err onmtne side of,caution, little realizing that the med they give you can cause rebound d covid (note I was taking ivermectin and zinc and d and green tea extract at time too so, I likely woulda been fine.)
My brother had Covid a month ago and was pretty sick for a few days (O2% of 87 the first night and difficulty breathing). He feels fully cured now but is still testing positive. His doctor told him he might continue to test positive for up to two months, but to ignore it. WTH?! Something’s very wrong here!
My brother had Covid a month ago and was pretty sick for a few days (O2% of 87 the first night and difficulty breathing). He feels fully cured now but is still testing positive. His doctor told him he might continue to test positive for up to two months, but to ignore it. WTH?! Something’s very wrong here!
“I think that when the virus was designed the ability to avoid a positive test result was built into it to hasten the spread of the virus. “
LOL! The at-home antigen test doesn’t check for the virus. It looks for molecules on the surface of the virus AFTER the virus has been attacked by the body.
It should only be used if symptoms are present to confirm COVID.
See #13
You sound knowledgeable. So, if you contract COVID, should the test indicate you are positive before you are infectious, or after?
There are many more false positive covid tests.
Just more kabuki COVID theater to panic the herd of idiots. When a real pandemic hits they will literally die of fear.
“I know people who have tested positive 3 separate times and have been slightly ill from “covid” - after being triple-vaxed.”
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I personally know MORE THAN 10. These geniuses still THINK that if they get more booster shots, they’ll be invincible. 3 of them got COVID every 6 months AFTER the booster. I dont get mad anymore because I believe in thinning the herd. Let them kick the bucket..
The "experts" lie: The mis-named "vaccines" (they're really just fractionally effective therapeutics with significant side effects) do absolutely nothing to prevent catching, spreading and getting sick from the Fauci Flu. Yet the "experts" continue the vicious lie that they do.
The "experts" lie: Fauci Flu tests are unreliable. If you are sick with Fauci Flu-like symptoms get tested. If you're not, why bother?
“You sound knowledgeable. So, if you contract COVID, should the test indicate you are positive before you are infectious, or after?”
The test confirms that your body is fighting the virus. If you have the virus and your body has yet to react the test will be negative.
If the affected virus molecules have not migrated to the area of the swab the test will be negative.
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