What is the point of this post? So freaking stupid. You need strangers to help navigate you through this? WtF?

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Anonymous wrote:Get the test, tho these were the symptoms of my non-covid virus that took forever to clear up.

Yep.

My entire family came back from the beach with a bad cold that lasted 7-10 days for some us (kids bounced back faster).

Please everyone, if you have any symptoms, just grab the at home test mentioned previously (I think it's called BinaxNOW). It is very accurate if it comes out positive. If it's negative, there is another test in there to take 3 days later to confirm. My DH and I (both vaxxed) returned from NC last week and immediately started having some slight symptoms. We both tested positive. Thank goodness someone we were with alerted us of a known exposure so we grabbed those at home tests and did them immediately. I'm really concerned about vaccinated people walking around thinking it's just a cold. They are exposing/infecting others in the meantime! My guess is that breakthrough cases are being grossly underreported.

Anonymous wrote:Get the test, tho these were the symptoms of my non-covid virus that took forever to clear up.

Yep.

Anonymous wrote:I will take an allergy medicine, if my symptoms don’t improve then I will take a covid test.

As Long as you’re not exposing people in the mean time!

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Anonymous wrote:Us too. Just go to cvs and buy the two pack you can administer yourself. Super easy and results in 15 minutes. They are in a blue box right as you walk in.

But those aren’t accurate. Only the slower ones are accurate

The rapid antigen tests are pretty accurate for people with symptoms -- much fewer false negatives if you have symptomatic covid than for asymptomatic people. Good enough to start, certainly. If that's positive, you could either just assume it's correct or go get a PCR test.

Not quite correct.
If you have symptoms, you do need to follow-up a negative rapid antigen with a PCR, since 1/3 false negative.
If you don't have symptoms, but have exposure, I'd go straight to PCR, since rapid antigen has 1/2 false negative there.

OMG what kind of crazy person is going to get so many tests? One test is good enough.

So many? They are talking about two tests total,

if they're vaccinated, that's two too many.

No, it’s not. I have three vaccinated relatives who have tested positive. 2 were negative the first test and then positive 24 hours later on the rapid test.!If you’ve been exposed or may have been exposed and you have symptoms, you need to test possibly a couple times to confirm you don’t have a false negative .

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Anonymous wrote:Us too. Just go to cvs and buy the two pack you can administer yourself. Super easy and results in 15 minutes. They are in a blue box right as you walk in.

But those aren’t accurate. Only the slower ones are accurate

The rapid antigen tests are pretty accurate for people with symptoms -- much fewer false negatives if you have symptomatic covid than for asymptomatic people. Good enough to start, certainly. If that's positive, you could either just assume it's correct or go get a PCR test.

Not quite correct.
If you have symptoms, you do need to follow-up a negative rapid antigen with a PCR, since 1/3 false negative.
If you don't have symptoms, but have exposure, I'd go straight to PCR, since rapid antigen has 1/2 false negative there.

OMG what kind of crazy person is going to get so many tests? One test is good enough.

So many? They are talking about two tests total,

if they're vaccinated, that's two too many.

“Don’t test don’t tell”, right? Breakthrough infections would plummet if the vaccinated would simply stop testing.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. Those aren’t Covid symptoms.

Yes they are, Doc. My fully-vaccinated, Covid positive brother has those symptoms (plus a slight fever and mild headache) right now.

He had a fever, OP doesn’t.

You don’t need every symptom. Are people really this dense?

I came back from a beach vacation with a cold. It was just a cold.