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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!!

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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.

Anonymous wrote:False positives happen. Don't test your kid in the future for such mild symptoms!

Anonymous wrote:We had a false positive on a rapid test from the pediatrician with an asymptomatic child. The only reason we were at the pediatrician was to get a PCR test to return to school after a holiday break.

Two PCR tests indicated negative. Pediatrician was talking about no longer doing rapid tests because PCRs were so quick now and rapids were unreliable. They had a rash of false positive rapid tests. I won’t take rapid tests anymore. There is a PCR place in Tysons where you can test at like 6:30pm and get the results back by like 5am.

Anonymous wrote:DS1 had a mild headache this morning (disappeared in under 10 minutes without meds, but tested him in an abundance of caution). The rapid at home test was positive. Took him for a PCR but won't get those results back until tonight.

Anyone have any experience with at home rapids and false positives? Would love to hear they are very common and we can actually see the family that we haven't seen in 2 years next week.

Anonymous wrote:We had a false positive on a rapid test from the pediatrician with an asymptomatic child. The only reason we were at the pediatrician was to get a PCR test to return to school after a holiday break.

Two PCR tests indicated negative. Pediatrician was talking about no longer doing rapid tests because PCRs were so quick now and rapids were unreliable. They had a rash of false positive rapid tests. I won’t take rapid tests anymore. There is a PCR place in Tysons where you can test at like 6:30pm and get the results back by like 5am.

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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.

If you decide not to isolate, then I would test his brother daily to try to catch his covid case as early as possible. The earlier you get it, the shorter your quarantine is! My daughters all got it from each other, but it took several days to spread and only one of them even showed symptoms. If your other child never gets it but has constant exposure, he can’t even begin his official quarantine until your other son is done. If your or your husband get it, then it starts over again. It is really best to try to isolate if you can figure it out.

Okay, that makes sense. I will keep them apart then. What a bummer. The kids are sad.

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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.

If you decide not to isolate, then I would test his brother daily to try to catch his covid case as early as possible. The earlier you get it, the shorter your quarantine is! My daughters all got it from each other, but it took several days to spread and only one of them even showed symptoms. If your other child never gets it but has constant exposure, he can’t even begin his official quarantine until your other son is done. If your or your husband get it, then it starts over again. It is really best to try to isolate if you can figure it out.

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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.

Anonymous wrote:Here it is - it sounds like it's more like 2%

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/05/04/1024450/at-home-covid-test-review-accuracy-binaxnow-lucira-ellume/