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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This latest COVID made me so sick, but it is also lingering on a rapid test well past the 10 days for both me and my friend.

Seems like you may be infectious for much longer. I am masking but with the latest guidance people probably would not even know. [/quote]

I thought we were already well aware that rapid tests did not provide an indication of infectiosness.  Like, we've known that for years now.  [/quote]

I think you might be thinking about PCR tests. Rapid tests may miss COVID-19, particularly before or just after the onset of symptoms, so a single test is not necessarily reliable in excluding transmissible COVID-19. However, a positive rapid test is considered to be evidence of infectiousness. [/quote]

Yep, this. A negative rapid home antigen test doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t have COVID because they aren’t very sensitive. A positive one means you have COVID and are still infectious.

There is a theory that PCR tests can sometimes still be positive past the infectious period, for about a month or so. So if you test positive for COVID, and a month later you test positive for COVID on a PCR test, you may or may not be infectious. Rapid home antigen, you test positive, you are infectious[/quote]

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