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Shell_Seas

(3,332 posts) Mon Mar 30, 2020, 11:28 PM Mar 2020

My Experience Trying to Obtain a Covid-19 Test in Texas

Not only was it difficult, but when I finally got one, it was inconclusive.

https://livingbluetx.com/2020/03/31/my-experience-covid-test-texas/

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My Experience Trying to Obtain a Covid-19 Test in Texas (Original Post) Shell_Seas Mar 2020 OP

Maybe a defective Chinese type? Mystery sage Mar 2020 #1

Tldr; the accuracy of the tests depends on viral load, meaning... Shell_Seas Mar 2020 #2

Was told leighbythesea2 Mar 2020 #3

Mystery sage

(576 posts)

1. Maybe a defective Chinese type?

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 11:44 PM

Mar 2020

Shell_Seas

(3,332 posts)

2. Tldr; the accuracy of the tests depends on viral load, meaning...

Reply to Mystery sage (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 11:52 PM

Mar 2020

If you are early in the infection or recovering, it may not be detected. So, they don't give a negative at all, instead they say not detected, but that doesn't mean you don't have it.

It took 13 days after my first symptoms to finally get tested, by then I was recovering and fever free. It was too late.

leighbythesea2

(1,200 posts)

3. Was told

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 12:33 AM

Mar 2020

By friends in Frontline medical positions that the swab proficiency when they administer the test, matters a lot.

One is a nurse and thinks she got it. Went into quarantine but test came back negative. The other (her sister) told me they both think her negative test result--was a false negative.
But we dont know the % average of that happening.

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