Is this a positive COVID test?
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Mrs. George has been complaining of a cough, getting progressively worse for the last week. I was sick last week, with a dry, hacking cough that progressed over 10 days to a wet productive cough. Still have it. I self-tested COVID last week - negative.
Of interest, when D4 was in the hospital early this month, they, as a matter of routine, did a COVID swab - it was negative, but the next day, the bloodwork showed positive.
Anyhow, this morning at 9:40, we swabbed her. After 20 minutes, the test was clearly negative. However, 6 HOURS later, it looks like this:
Positive? Negative?
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Mrs. George has been complaining of a cough, getting progressively worse for the last week. I was sick last week, with a dry, hacking cough that progressed over 10 days to a wet productive cough. Still have it. I self-tested COVID last week - negative.
Of interest, when D4 was in the hospital early this month, they, as a matter of routine, did a COVID swab - it was negative, but the next day, the bloodwork showed positive.
Anyhow, this morning at 9:40, we swabbed her. After 20 minutes, the test was clearly negative. However, 6 HOURS later, it looks like this:
Positive? Negative?
@George-K said in Is this a positive COVID test?:
Mrs. George has been complaining of a cough, getting progressively worse for the last week. I was sick last week, with a dry, hacking cough that progressed over 10 days to a wet productive cough. Still have it. I self-tested COVID last week - negative.
Of interest, when D4 was in the hospital early this month, they, as a matter of routine, did a COVID swab - it was negative, but the next day, the bloodwork showed positive.
Anyhow, this morning at 9:40, we swabbed her. After 20 minutes, the test was clearly negative. However, 6 HOURS later, it looks like this:
Positive? Negative?
Negative.
LFT's will do that if left forever. That's one of the reasons we read them at a specified time. Pregnancy tests are the worst. Or maybe that's just because we do more of them.
Having said that...If daughter had a negative screening test, but pinged on the blood test, I'd follow with the blood test for Mrs. K (if it was me). The blood test is usually more sensitive.
That's just a peace of mind thing for me.
Repeat testing as Jon suggests works. Usually. I've seen guys negative for two and ping on the third day. Weird virus.
Maybe you've got a different variant. Maybe you've got one with relatively mild symptoms. Or maybe you've got some other type of crud.
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A couple of other odds and ends...I use B-D Veritor combo tests for COVID/Flu A/Flu B, but I get a very, very good deal on them.
Walgreens down here uses the Abbott Binax. Those are pretty decent and have a long shelf life. Don't know if they make a combo kit.
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