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BTW, what does this even mean: "But if the tests work much better when taken three times over the course of several days."
Multiple attempts at a 10% success rate increase the success rate.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The authors say that an informational campaign about the proper way to take rapid tests might help to preserve public confidence in the tests’ utility.” Why do we have to spend tax payer money for a campaign to try and force people to care about the utility of a product that can't accurately detect a symptomless virus. Honestly starting to forget it was ever even a thing.
I had COVID a few weeks ago. You will remember.
Is that really a problem if asymptomatic cases are less infectious and do not cause much issues to the carrier? (This is a question, not a statement)
It's not to begin treatment. So it is a pretty big problem!
I remember early on that they were advertised as just confirming COVID when you were at the height of symptoms. Then we got flooded with using them all the time and expectations of much more. What happened?
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Duh, they only detect levels of viral load sufficient to make a person infectious, around 1e6 RNA copies per cc of fluid. And viral load tends to peak somewhere in the 1e10 to 1e14 range, people at 1e6 really have to work at coughing directly on to growth plates to create a sample. Back in the early days of Covid-19 people didn't typically begin displaying symptoms visible without an x-ray until they'd nearly reach t…
Indeed, it appears that this is somewhat redundant. A majority, if not all, of the rapid tests I have used explicitly caution against taking one in the absence of symptoms, as it is expected to yield negligible results.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/covid-19-spread-from-deer/ If wild animals are regularly spreading Covid to humans, this plus asymptomatic cases means zero Covid strategies never had a chance of working indefinitely.
Is my coffee bad or has the editor slipped? Probably and extra “if” after the “But”?
“But if the tests work much better when taken three times over the course of several days.”