Anonymous wrote:Why are you testing at all?

How is this even a question?

Why are you testing at all?

We tested on Monday night, everyone's negative.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When you can. Tomorrow is ideal, but today is still good. We tested today, but we have been home from our trip since Friday and have seen no one in the past three days.

Are you hermits?

Your home life must be pretty bad.

Anonymous wrote:When you can. Tomorrow is ideal, but today is still good. We tested today, but we have been home from our trip since Friday and have seen no one in the past three days.

Are you hermits?

Neither, why would you?

Either is fine. Regardless, plan for your child to bring home covid so you may want to save the tests.

When you can. Tomorrow is ideal, but today is still good. We tested today, but we have been home from our trip since Friday and have seen no one in the past three days.

Tomorrow morning though it’s probably still too soon.

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Anonymous wrote:Rapid testing.

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tomorrow morning. we did everyday for the past three days after an exposure and got a positive for our whole family on the third day of testing.

+1 It takes a few days for your viral load to build up after exposure for the at home rapid tests to detect COVID. MCPS request for everyone to test today (Monday) will miss many COVID cases if spread occurred at religious services and family gatherings on Sunday.

Anonymous wrote:Rapid testing.

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tomorrow morning. we did everyday for the past three days after an exposure and got a positive for our whole family on the third day of testing.

Tomorrow is ideal-- pretty much regardless of your exposure timing, it's most accurate to test as close as possible to the activity (school) in question. But I understand doing it tonight to make plans for staying home/childcare if it's positive.

Today is fine!

I just hope that there is not a huge teacher shortage following this test like there was following winter break.

If you got together on Sunday with other people, even non-household family, I’d wait until tomorrow morning.

That’s still pretty soon after a possible exposure, but it will at least increase the likelihood of having a high enough viral load to be detected if the child is infected. Otherwise, today should be fine.

Rapid testing.