BinaxNow at home test and false positives?

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

Yes, he was already exposed. The point is to not have him continuously exposed for the next 10 days. If you don’t isolate, sibling’s quarantine period STARTS on positive kid’s day 10!!

^^^and this is a big reason why I would never test for mild symptoms. Thank goodness my older child is vaccinated and my youngest has just a few more weeks until she is.

Well just keep the pandemic going since it's such an inconvenience to your life.

Covid is endemic. Its not going away. We have to learn to live with it and that includes not testing for minor symptoms or quarantining.

But I hope OP has fun keeping BOTH her kids home for 10 days because 1 kid had a 10 minute headache. You do you. Just know that most others are not doing this any more.

You obviously don’t live in DC. Stop pretending your norms are our norms.

I live in Nova. Absolutely no one is testing or keeping kids home for brief headaches that resolve on their own.

Well you guys are all so selfish. How hard is it to get a PCR test and stay at home for a day until you get results? Quarantining for 10 or more days sucks, and I’ve been there with kids who had one day of mild to no symptoms, but I still listened to the rules so my kids didn’t spread it to a vulnerable person who could have gotten very sick. Also, I didn’t want other families to have to spend days/weeks in quarantine from exposure or getting sick from my kids.

Since I guess this isn't obvious, I'll spell it out. If you don't test children for minor symptoms that resolve quickly, you don't have to report said test to the school, and no one has to quarantine. Our public elementary school has had zero Covid cases this year. Zero.

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Why would you test a kid for the very slightest hint of a symptom? I wish the other parents at my kids' school would stop testing so much, because *that* is what causes "weeks in quarantine", usually for kids who aren't even sick.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here: I really do not care that folks would not have tested. We lost family already to covid. I have zero desire to lose anymore.

Then frankly, you should go back to sheltering in place at home. Finding out that your kid has covid when he’s mostly likely already exposed your entire family, isn’t going to keep you “safe.”

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

Yes, he was already exposed. The point is to not have him continuously exposed for the next 10 days. If you don’t isolate, sibling’s quarantine period STARTS on positive kid’s day 10!!

^^^and this is a big reason why I would never test for mild symptoms. Thank goodness my older child is vaccinated and my youngest has just a few more weeks until she is.

Well just keep the pandemic going since it's such an inconvenience to your life.

Covid is endemic. Its not going away. We have to learn to live with it and that includes not testing for minor symptoms or quarantining.

But I hope OP has fun keeping BOTH her kids home for 10 days because 1 kid had a 10 minute headache. You do you. Just know that most others are not doing this any more.

You obviously don’t live in DC. Stop pretending your norms are our norms.

I live in Nova. Absolutely no one is testing or keeping kids home for brief headaches that resolve on their own.

Well you guys are all so selfish. How hard is it to get a PCR test and stay at home for a day until you get results? Quarantining for 10 or more days sucks, and I’ve been there with kids who had one day of mild to no symptoms, but I still listened to the rules so my kids didn’t spread it to a vulnerable person who could have gotten very sick. Also, I didn’t want other families to have to spend days/weeks in quarantine from exposure or getting sick from my kids.

Since I guess this isn't obvious, I'll spell it out. If you don't test children for minor symptoms that resolve quickly, you don't have to report said test to the school, and no one has to quarantine. Our public elementary school has had zero Covid cases this year. Zero.

Except maybe your kids are spreading when they are out in public to other more vulnerable people or perhaps even giving it to someone at school who then asymptomatically gives it to a vulnerable person who gets very sick. You are an incredibly selfish person!

No I'm just more accepting of our collective future than you are.

Our behavior now is shaping our future. Your choices are immoral to many, but the people who may find it most repugnant in the future are your own children. Knowingly letting them potentially spread a deadly virus is far from maternal, and may come back to bite you. I am sure you are convinced you are immune from such reproach and just being "pragmatic". Insufferable.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

Yes, he was already exposed. The point is to not have him continuously exposed for the next 10 days. If you don’t isolate, sibling’s quarantine period STARTS on positive kid’s day 10!!

^^^and this is a big reason why I would never test for mild symptoms. Thank goodness my older child is vaccinated and my youngest has just a few more weeks until she is.

Well just keep the pandemic going since it's such an inconvenience to your life.

Covid is endemic. Its not going away. We have to learn to live with it and that includes not testing for minor symptoms or quarantining.

But I hope OP has fun keeping BOTH her kids home for 10 days because 1 kid had a 10 minute headache. You do you. Just know that most others are not doing this any more.

You obviously don’t live in DC. Stop pretending your norms are our norms.

I live in Nova. Absolutely no one is testing or keeping kids home for brief headaches that resolve on their own.

Well you guys are all so selfish. How hard is it to get a PCR test and stay at home for a day until you get results? Quarantining for 10 or more days sucks, and I’ve been there with kids who had one day of mild to no symptoms, but I still listened to the rules so my kids didn’t spread it to a vulnerable person who could have gotten very sick. Also, I didn’t want other families to have to spend days/weeks in quarantine from exposure or getting sick from my kids.

Since I guess this isn't obvious, I'll spell it out. If you don't test children for minor symptoms that resolve quickly, you don't have to report said test to the school, and no one has to quarantine. Our public elementary school has had zero Covid cases this year. Zero.

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Why would you test a kid for the very slightest hint of a symptom? I wish the other parents at my kids' school would stop testing so much, because *that* is what causes "weeks in quarantine", usually for kids who aren't even sick.

Way to completely gloss over the fact that they are efficient vectors. https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2021/10/21/study-finds-children-to-be-vectors-of-covid-19-and-emerging-variants/?sh=792955351819

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Anonymous wrote:Why in the world would you test for a minor headache that quickly resolved itself?

My DD told me her throat was sore this morning. I gave her a glass of OJ and asked if it went away. She said yes. We get this often when running the heat over night. I certainly didn’t Covid test her?!??

Some of you are really making this extra difficult on yourselves.

We got a call from my kids school that my child had a headache. Just a headache no other symptoms and were told a negative covid test was required to return. I thought the same thing why am I covid testing for a headache that had resolved itself by the time we had gotten home. Tested both the child with headache and sibling (same school) and both were positive. My entire home except for my youngest tested positive. We would have never known.

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Anonymous wrote:Why in the world would you test for a minor headache that quickly resolved itself?

My DD told me her throat was sore this morning. I gave her a glass of OJ and asked if it went away. She said yes. We get this often when running the heat over night. I certainly didn’t Covid test her?!??

Some of you are really making this extra difficult on yourselves.

Because they are being responsible. Sorry that's such a foreign concept to you.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

Yes, he was already exposed. The point is to not have him continuously exposed for the next 10 days. If you don’t isolate, sibling’s quarantine period STARTS on positive kid’s day 10!!

^^^and this is a big reason why I would never test for mild symptoms. Thank goodness my older child is vaccinated and my youngest has just a few more weeks until she is.

Well just keep the pandemic going since it's such an inconvenience to your life.

Covid is endemic. Its not going away. We have to learn to live with it and that includes not testing for minor symptoms or quarantining.

But I hope OP has fun keeping BOTH her kids home for 10 days because 1 kid had a 10 minute headache. You do you. Just know that most others are not doing this any more.

Once again, COVID is still in pandemic state, not endemic. Words have meanings. When it does become endemic, the actual experts will let you know.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

Yes, he was already exposed. The point is to not have him continuously exposed for the next 10 days. If you don’t isolate, sibling’s quarantine period STARTS on positive kid’s day 10!!

^^^and this is a big reason why I would never test for mild symptoms. Thank goodness my older child is vaccinated and my youngest has just a few more weeks until she is.

Well just keep the pandemic going since it's such an inconvenience to your life.

Covid is endemic. Its not going away. We have to learn to live with it and that includes not testing for minor symptoms or quarantining.

But I hope OP has fun keeping BOTH her kids home for 10 days because 1 kid had a 10 minute headache. You do you. Just know that most others are not doing this any more.

You obviously don’t live in DC. Stop pretending your norms are our norms.

I live in Nova. Absolutely no one is testing or keeping kids home for brief headaches that resolve on their own.

Well you guys are all so selfish. How hard is it to get a PCR test and stay at home for a day until you get results? Quarantining for 10 or more days sucks, and I’ve been there with kids who had one day of mild to no symptoms, but I still listened to the rules so my kids didn’t spread it to a vulnerable person who could have gotten very sick. Also, I didn’t want other families to have to spend days/weeks in quarantine from exposure or getting sick from my kids.

Since I guess this isn't obvious, I'll spell it out. If you don't test children for minor symptoms that resolve quickly, you don't have to report said test to the school, and no one has to quarantine. Our public elementary school has had zero Covid cases this year. Zero.

WTAF?

You people are fcked up.

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I can't believe people are willing to gamble with other people's health just because their kids don't feel too badly. It is so easy to pass on if a kid has symptoms, even if they are minor.

I have been one of the fairly relaxed ones a lot of people here would hate. We socialized a lot during the first year of this. I have almost given up masking entirely.

But we got vaxxed the first day we were eligible and I have tested my kid and myself three times for minor symptoms because I do not want to be the one responsible for KNOWINGLY spreading a disease that could kill.

Same as when we have strep or the flu or a stomach virus, even if they aren't deadly.

Be humans, please.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe people are willing to gamble with other people's health just because their kids don't feel too badly. It is so easy to pass on if a kid has symptoms, even if they are minor.

I have been one of the fairly relaxed ones a lot of people here would hate. We socialized a lot during the first year of this. I have almost given up masking entirely.

But we got vaxxed the first day we were eligible and I have tested my kid and myself three times for minor symptoms because I do not want to be the one responsible for KNOWINGLY spreading a disease that could kill.

Same as when we have strep or the flu or a stomach virus, even if they aren't deadly.

Be humans, please.

Nope. I'm not testing my kids for every minor symptom they might show.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe people are willing to gamble with other people's health just because their kids don't feel too badly. It is so easy to pass on if a kid has symptoms, even if they are minor.

I have been one of the fairly relaxed ones a lot of people here would hate. We socialized a lot during the first year of this. I have almost given up masking entirely.

But we got vaxxed the first day we were eligible and I have tested my kid and myself three times for minor symptoms because I do not want to be the one responsible for KNOWINGLY spreading a disease that could kill.

Same as when we have strep or the flu or a stomach virus, even if they aren't deadly.

Be humans, please.

Nope. I'm not testing my kids for every minor symptom they might show.

So you would be fine if my kid came over to play at your house if they just had a minor symptom? If it turned out to be covid, I assume you wouldn’t be mad at all about that then…

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe people are willing to gamble with other people's health just because their kids don't feel too badly. It is so easy to pass on if a kid has symptoms, even if they are minor.

I have been one of the fairly relaxed ones a lot of people here would hate. We socialized a lot during the first year of this. I have almost given up masking entirely.

But we got vaxxed the first day we were eligible and I have tested my kid and myself three times for minor symptoms because I do not want to be the one responsible for KNOWINGLY spreading a disease that could kill.

Same as when we have strep or the flu or a stomach virus, even if they aren't deadly.

Be humans, please.

Nope. I'm not testing my kids for every minor symptom they might show.

So you would be fine if my kid came over to play at your house if they just had a minor symptom? If it turned out to be covid, I assume you wouldn’t be mad at all about that then…

No, I genuinely wouldn't. My kids have been doing playdates and sports for over a year. The virus cannot be contained. It'll still be spreading in 2022, 2023, and beyond. Perhaps the Pfizer pill takes the edge off disease, but it's still going to be spreading.

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OP here: I really wish this hadn't turned into an argument. There is zero need for folks to get upset over my individual choice to test. Does it make you feel better to get upset at me? What i chose to do doesn't impact you at all. It doesn't matter that my kid isn't sick or feels fine. I would keep him home if he felt fine but had the flu too (or any number of other illnesses).

Anyway, we are ALL positive (the four of us). I am glad we tested because now I won't be attending the birthday of my husband's 80 year old uncle and hopefully we protected my son's best friend's brother who has a heart defect and just spent a week in the hospital for the flu. And now we won't be exposing my MIL who just lost her husband last month and is high risk herself.

I don't really care to hear any comments about how we are stupid for testing.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here: I really wish this hadn't turned into an argument. There is zero need for folks to get upset over my individual choice to test. Does it make you feel better to get upset at me? What i chose to do doesn't impact you at all. It doesn't matter that my kid isn't sick or feels fine. I would keep him home if he felt fine but had the flu too (or any number of other illnesses).

Anyway, we are ALL positive (the four of us). I am glad we tested because now I won't be attending the birthday of my husband's 80 year old uncle and hopefully we protected my son's best friend's brother who has a heart defect and just spent a week in the hospital for the flu. And now we won't be exposing my MIL who just lost her husband last month and is high risk herself.

I don't really care to hear any comments about how we are stupid for testing.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here: I really wish this hadn't turned into an argument. There is zero need for folks to get upset over my individual choice to test. Does it make you feel better to get upset at me? What i chose to do doesn't impact you at all. It doesn't matter that my kid isn't sick or feels fine. I would keep him home if he felt fine but had the flu too (or any number of other illnesses).

Anyway, we are ALL positive (the four of us). I am glad we tested because now I won't be attending the birthday of my husband's 80 year old uncle and hopefully we protected my son's best friend's brother who has a heart defect and just spent a week in the hospital for the flu. And now we won't be exposing my MIL who just lost her husband last month and is high risk herself.

I don't really care to hear any comments about how we are stupid for testing.

Your actions make them self-aware of their own irresponsibility. And they can’t handle that cognitive dissonance, so the knives come out.

Classic psychological response and coping mechanism.