Too late for Covid test?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, OP, you're about 4 years too late. Covid isn't really a thing anymore.

Then why are still people dying from it still?

People die from colds if they lead to pneumonia. The difference is that we don't test and record if they had a cold before they died of pneumonia.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't you get vaccinated? Why would you think that it's Covid?

Are covid vaccines still a thing? Genuinely curious if others are still vaccinating.

I got a booster in September. There were tons of people in the pharmacy of all ages getting it. I plan to get it annually.

OP why not test if you want to know? Most people test positive for 6-12 days.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't you get vaccinated? Why would you think that it's Covid?

Are covid vaccines still a thing? Genuinely curious if others are still vaccinating.

I got a booster in September. There were tons of people in the pharmacy of all ages getting it. I plan to get it annually.

OP why not test if you want to know? Most people test positive for 6-12 days.

Same, as did everyone in my extended family. Definitely doesn’t prevent it but mitigates severity / I got sick three weeks after the booster but was barely sick, no fever even.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't you get vaccinated? Why would you think that it's Covid?

Are covid vaccines still a thing? Genuinely curious if others are still vaccinating.

I got a booster in September. There were tons of people in the pharmacy of all ages getting it. I plan to get it annually.

OP why not test if you want to know? Most people test positive for 6-12 days.

Those "tons of people" are a very small subset of the overall population. As state figures show, uptake has been limited. Which explains why nations continue to throw away unused doses and Moderna and Pfizer revenues are off sharply from the prior year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't you get vaccinated? Why would you think that it's Covid?

Are covid vaccines still a thing? Genuinely curious if others are still vaccinating.

I got a booster in September. There were tons of people in the pharmacy of all ages getting it. I plan to get it annually.

OP why not test if you want to know? Most people test positive for 6-12 days.

Those "tons of people" are a very small subset of the overall population. As state figures show, uptake has been limited. Which explains why nations continue to throw away unused doses and Moderna and Pfizer revenues are off sharply from the prior year.

Sure, but this wasn’t just 65+ people it was kids to seniors. And I had to drive out to Gaithersburg to find a place with an available appointment (I wanted it before a couple of international trips). So definitely some people were getting it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't you get vaccinated? Why would you think that it's Covid?

Are covid vaccines still a thing? Genuinely curious if others are still vaccinating.

I got a booster in September. There were tons of people in the pharmacy of all ages getting it. I plan to get it annually.

OP why not test if you want to know? Most people test positive for 6-12 days.

Same, as did everyone in my extended family. Definitely doesn’t prevent it but mitigates severity / I got sick three weeks after the booster but was barely sick, no fever even.

You got covid three weeks after the booster?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't you get vaccinated? Why would you think that it's Covid?

Are covid vaccines still a thing? Genuinely curious if others are still vaccinating.

I got a booster in September. There were tons of people in the pharmacy of all ages getting it. I plan to get it annually.

OP why not test if you want to know? Most people test positive for 6-12 days.

Those "tons of people" are a very small subset of the overall population. As state figures show, uptake has been limited. Which explains why nations continue to throw away unused doses and Moderna and Pfizer revenues are off sharply from the prior year.

Sure, but this wasn’t just 65+ people it was kids to seniors. And I had to drive out to Gaithersburg to find a place with an available appointment (I wanted it before a couple of international trips). So definitely some people were getting it.

This was a small, but determined, group of first adopters. They will likely wait in line for their tenth booster at some future point. But this is a very small group overall. Look at the state data.

[Anonymous]

It may be advantageous to know whether you had it. It’s worth testing.

[Anonymous]

I don’t test because at this point my behavior isn’t going to change whether it’s Covid or not

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, OP, you're about 4 years too late. Covid isn't really a thing anymore.

Then why are still people dying from it still?

Not very many when you compare it to causes overall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t test because at this point my behavior isn’t going to change whether it’s Covid or not

This completely. Why does it matter? If you don't feel well, lay low, stay hydrated, and don't spread whatever virus you may have to others. Whether it's a rhinovirus or Covid, it really doesn't make a difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It may be advantageous to know whether you had it. It’s worth testing.

Why? What does it matter? What are you going to do differently? You people need to let go of the chokehold that COVID has on you. Move on, the rest of the world has. No one is testing, no one is getting more vaccines and no one is masking, no matter how much you wish you could still play pandemic, its over and has been over for years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not at all, why would you think it's too late?

I wasn’t sure for how long one would test positive after symptoms appear.

I tested positive 12 hours after first symptoms. 6 days later most symptoms were dissipated, fever gone after 4 days. Still testing positive until day 10.

Test, because if it's covid you know. If it's not, then you know once fever free for 24 and symptoms mostly better then you are most likely not contagious.

Unless you enjoy infecting your family, friends and others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take the test. I woke up on Monday with a certain kind of headache that I only ever had before with the Covid vaccine and my one earlier bout of Covid. I had been fine in Saturday, had a little tickle in my throat on Sunday, and fever/headache Monday night. The test lit right up positive. It’s Thursday, and I’m feeling pretty good today.

To repeat it again for the folks in the back, the vaccine doesn’t mean you won’t get Covid, but it means that if you do get it, you won’t wind up in a hospital or dead.

I have no idea where I got it from, but I know that people aren’t testing and staying home like they used to.

Very few are testing or even staying home if sick. Nobody masks really. So you could have gotten it literally from anywhere. Also, 40-50% of cases are asymptomatic, so literally anywhere

[Anonymous]

I would test if I had symptoms; I'd probably isolate more aggressively from my family if I had covid than if I just had a cold, like, go sleep and eat in the basement for a few days.

Might not actually make much epidemiological sense to do that, I realize, but it does seem more contagious than a cold (even though the last time my kid had covid, they were not sicker than they would have been with a mild cold).