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2. What Really Causes a False Positive COVID-19 Test? Experts ...

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   False positive COVID-19 tests—when your result is positive, but you aren’t actually infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus—are a real, if unlikely, possibility, especially if you don’t perform ...

3. Are False Positive Covid Tests Common? Doctors Explain. - AOL

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   A false positive Covid-19 test result can happen, but it’s rare, says Brian Labus, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Public Health.

4. How common are false-positive COVID tests? Experts weigh in.

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   The drama surrounding the hosts' exit naturally raises some questions about how common it is to get a false-positive result from a COVID-19 test. It's important to note that there are different ...

5. COVID-19 testing - Wikipedia

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   Accuracy is measured in terms of specificity and selectivity. Test errors can be false positives (the test is positive, but the virus is not present) or false negatives, (the test is negative, but the virus is present). [179] In a study of over 900,000 rapid antigen tests, false positives were found to occur at a rate of 0.05% or 1 in 2000. [180]

6. Got a Faint Line on a COVID-19 Home Test? Here's What ... - AOL

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   A false positive isn't as likely as a false negative result on a home test early in a person's infection, explains Sandra H. Bonat, M.D., a pediatric expert and virologist with VIP StarNetwork, a ...

7. What does a faint line on a rapid COVID-19 test mean? - AOL

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   Don't read the test too early or too late, the experts say, because that may give you a false-negative or false-positive result. Only read your results within the time window that the COVID-19 ...

8. Why you have COVID symptoms and a negative test: You ... - AOL

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   Your test may have given you a false negative, which are far more common than false positives, experts say. ... They can’t tell you for certain whether or not you have, or had, COVID, according ...

9. Should You Use an Expired COVID Test? The Answer Might ... - AOL

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   But if you happen to get a positive test result and you don’t have symptoms of the virus, he suggests waiting a day and testing yourself again—or calling your doctor about getting a PCR test ...