BinaxNow at home test and false positives?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. This post is so strange. We have been doing playdates and sports and everything. My kids are in school. I even went to the kennedy center twice since they reopened. We aren't living in fear. I just had a feeling something was up and we tested and now we will stay home for 10 days (and my kids miss 5 days of school).

I am really not sure why that is me living in fear or having anxiety or anything. I just knew we had family coming in and to risk infecting them.

I don't understand why folks are getting so worked up over the fact that I tested when we are all positive.

But go on keep arguing. Have fun.

Well for starters I’d hate to be the kid sitting next to your kid at school who know has to quarantine perfectly healthy through Thanksgiving. I’d be livid.

Well, sorry. I am really good friends with all the kids in the class and they are fine. SO ....and they don't have to quarentine over thanksgiving. Some of you guys are acting like you haven't kept up to date over the rules. They can test on days 5-7. Which puts them out of quarantine before thanksgiving and they can even go back to school next week. And i assume if you don't care about knowing whether your kid is positive, you don't care about quarantining or whether or not you infect family members.

You still caused a perfectly healthy child to miss 5 days of school for no reason.

Yeah my own kid?

I am taking him out out of 7 days to go to disney in January, you going to yell at me about that too?

No, all the kids sitting next to your kid. At most schools at least 3-4 kids need to quarantine based on class seating and lunch. Are you sure you are a parent with kids in school?

They won't be out 5 days. They out today and tomorrow and then Monday. That is 3 days, not 5. So no, no other kids are out 5.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. This post is so strange. We have been doing playdates and sports and everything. My kids are in school. I even went to the kennedy center twice since they reopened. We aren't living in fear. I just had a feeling something was up and we tested and now we will stay home for 10 days (and my kids miss 5 days of school).

I am really not sure why that is me living in fear or having anxiety or anything. I just knew we had family coming in and to risk infecting them.

I don't understand why folks are getting so worked up over the fact that I tested when we are all positive.

But go on keep arguing. Have fun.

Well for starters I’d hate to be the kid sitting next to your kid at school who know has to quarantine perfectly healthy through Thanksgiving. I’d be livid.

Well, sorry. I am really good friends with all the kids in the class and they are fine. SO ....and they don't have to quarentine over thanksgiving. Some of you guys are acting like you haven't kept up to date over the rules. They can test on days 5-7. Which puts them out of quarantine before thanksgiving and they can even go back to school next week. And i assume if you don't care about knowing whether your kid is positive, you don't care about quarantining or whether or not you infect family members.

There is no way you are “really good friends” with every single kid in the class. You just sound ridiculous. Day 5 (from yesterday) is Sunday. If they could even get a test Sunday (unlikely) they would be unlikely to get the results back before Tuesday (last day of school) without paying a significant fee to expedite. You screwed over a bunch of families whether you admit it to yourself or not.

Curative gives results in less than 24 hours and you can get rapid PCR test AND the school now accept rapid antigen tests for return. So that is 15 minutes and free.

I am not saying it doesn't suck and I feel bad. I apologized to everyone this morning (we have a class text chain). They offered to bring me food. Seems fine.

Anyway, I am leaving this post. Enjoy arguing.

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Good to know that the parents who send their kids to school with lice are at least being consistent with Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:You chronic testers must have little kids or something. My oldest is in all AP and honors classes and our school has no virtual option. So, if he tests positive, he’s completely screwed.

He’s vaccinated, so no way am I inviting trouble by testing him for a sniffle. Every other parent I know is in the same boat.

You've accepted and adapted to reality. Some of the posters on this board are still living in a "zero covid" fantasy.

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I have little kids and I'm not testing for minor symptoms, because our school also has no virtual option-- and even if they did, virtual kindergarten doesn't work at all because it's developmentally inappropriate. My kid is at school with a runny nose right now. I'm very high risk (serious heart condition), and I'm a little sniffly too, but I'm not testing myself. Colds are still gonna happen, and I'm vaxxed and boosted. At some point, even the high risk people need to learn to live with this, because we were ALWAYS at more risk than most people from things like flu. That's never going to change.

Wouldn’t you want to get monoclonal antibodies? They need to be given within the first few days of the infection so I’m not sure why you wouldn’t test.

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They don’t give monoclonal antibodies to low risk people. This isn’t Florida. You have to pass a screening and most people don’t qualify.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t give monoclonal antibodies to low risk people. This isn’t Florida. You have to pass a screening and most people don’t qualify.

Not true at all right now. I know several low-risk people who recently got it, including my spouse. The health dept did not ask one screening question only scheduled the appointment and said you need to bring your positive pcr results.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. This post is so strange. We have been doing playdates and sports and everything. My kids are in school. I even went to the kennedy center twice since they reopened. We aren't living in fear. I just had a feeling something was up and we tested and now we will stay home for 10 days (and my kids miss 5 days of school).

I am really not sure why that is me living in fear or having anxiety or anything. I just knew we had family coming in and to risk infecting them.

I don't understand why folks are getting so worked up over the fact that I tested when we are all positive.

But go on keep arguing. Have fun.

The truth of the matter is that we're still in a "pandemic." We don't have great treatments, it's still killing people at an alarming rate, and hospitals are still overburdened. People who want to move on just don't want to be inconvenienced; they are simply annoyed it's taking so long. Rather than admit that, they name call.

Now, when it's actually classified as endemic, then maybe they have a point. But for now, they're just being selfish. But, you know, people are selfish.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. This post is so strange. We have been doing playdates and sports and everything. My kids are in school. I even went to the kennedy center twice since they reopened. We aren't living in fear. I just had a feeling something was up and we tested and now we will stay home for 10 days (and my kids miss 5 days of school).

I am really not sure why that is me living in fear or having anxiety or anything. I just knew we had family coming in and to risk infecting them.

I don't understand why folks are getting so worked up over the fact that I tested when we are all positive.

But go on keep arguing. Have fun.

The truth of the matter is that we're still in a "pandemic." We don't have great treatments, it's still killing people at an alarming rate, and hospitals are still overburdened. People who want to move on just don't want to be inconvenienced; they are simply annoyed it's taking so long. Rather than admit that, they name call.

Now, when it's actually classified as endemic, then maybe they have a point. But for now, they're just being selfish. But, you know, people are selfish.

It’s effectively an endemic status of infection locally. It you want to continue hiding, by all means…

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t give monoclonal antibodies to low risk people. This isn’t Florida. You have to pass a screening and most people don’t qualify.

Not true at all right now. I know several low-risk people who recently got it, including my spouse. The health dept did not ask one screening question only scheduled the appointment and said you need to bring your positive pcr results.

At Inova (VA) you do still have to be high risk. I don’t know of anywhere else in Nova giving the monoclonal antibodies.

Patients who have symptomatic COVID, vaccinated or unvaccinated, are eligible if they have a positive test, have had symptom onset within the past 10 days, and also meet one of the following high risk criteria:

Patients 12 or older who weigh at least 40 kg who have the following risk factors:

Older age (>=65)
Obesity with a BMI of >=25 for adults or BMI >= 85th percentile for children age 12-17
Pregnancy
Chronic kidney disease
Diabetes
Immunosuppressive disease or on immunosuppressive treatment
Cardiovascular disease, including congenital heart disease or hypertension
Chronic lung disease, including, but not limited to, asthma and COPD
Sickle cell disease
Neurodevelopmental disorders (i.e. cerebral palsy) or other conditions that confer medical complexity, such as genetic or metabolic syndromes and severe congenital abnormalities
Having a medical related technological dependence, i.e. tracheostomy, gastrostomy, or positive pressure ventilation
Presence of other medical or non-medical risk factors, including race or ethnicity, that may also confer high risk for severe disease.

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VDH also says you must be high risk.

https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/mabs/

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In Maryland it was easy to get. My doctor put in a request with the state health dept who was to determine if I qualified, yet when they called they asked no questions about preexisting conditions, only gave the time and place of the infusion. I know someone else with the same experience. So maybe the websites say you need to qualify, but it seems like that only matters if there is a short supply.

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Anonymous wrote:You chronic testers must have little kids or something. My oldest is in all AP and honors classes and our school has no virtual option. So, if he tests positive, he’s completely screwed.

He’s vaccinated, so no way am I inviting trouble by testing him for a sniffle. Every other parent I know is in the same boat.

You've accepted and adapted to reality. Some of the posters on this board are still living in a "zero covid" fantasy.

+1.

+2

I have little kids and I'm not testing for minor symptoms, because our school also has no virtual option-- and even if they did, virtual kindergarten doesn't work at all because it's developmentally inappropriate. My kid is at school with a runny nose right now. I'm very high risk (serious heart condition), and I'm a little sniffly too, but I'm not testing myself. Colds are still gonna happen, and I'm vaxxed and boosted. At some point, even the high risk people need to learn to live with this, because we were ALWAYS at more risk than most people from things like flu. That's never going to change.

Wouldn’t you want to get monoclonal antibodies? They need to be given within the first few days of the infection so I’m not sure why you wouldn’t test.

No. I have a cold. I've had colds before during the pandemic. Are you going to run out for monoclonal antibodies every time you sneeze? If I had COVID-specific symptoms, like coughing or shortness of breath or not being able to taste my food, I'd probably test. But I don't have those. I have a runny nose. I'll live.

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Yeah I don’t want monoclonal antibodies for minor symptoms. I don’t want to even know if it’s Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:You chronic testers must have little kids or something. My oldest is in all AP and honors classes and our school has no virtual option. So, if he tests positive, he’s completely screwed.

He’s vaccinated, so no way am I inviting trouble by testing him for a sniffle. Every other parent I know is in the same boat.

You've accepted and adapted to reality. Some of the posters on this board are still living in a "zero covid" fantasy.

+1.

+2

I have little kids and I'm not testing for minor symptoms, because our school also has no virtual option-- and even if they did, virtual kindergarten doesn't work at all because it's developmentally inappropriate. My kid is at school with a runny nose right now. I'm very high risk (serious heart condition), and I'm a little sniffly too, but I'm not testing myself. Colds are still gonna happen, and I'm vaxxed and boosted. At some point, even the high risk people need to learn to live with this, because we were ALWAYS at more risk than most people from things like flu. That's never going to change.

Wouldn’t you want to get monoclonal antibodies? They need to be given within the first few days of the infection so I’m not sure why you wouldn’t test.

No. I have a cold. I've had colds before during the pandemic. Are you going to run out for monoclonal antibodies every time you sneeze? If I had COVID-specific symptoms, like coughing or shortness of breath or not being able to taste my food, I'd probably test. But I don't have those. I have a runny nose. I'll live.

If I were very high risk (as you claim to be) I would run out for the antibiodies every time I tested positive for Covid (and I would test every time I had cold symptoms). As it is, I’m young and fit with no conditions that increase my risk and don’t test every time I sneeze.

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First of all, OP, you absolutely did the right thing. Thank you for that.

To the others, my elementary kid sits next to a child who was Covid positive and we weren't even notified. I guess there seats are 37 inches apart? Even in a very compliant area, people are following the letter of the law. This will not affect many kids.