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With positive Covid cases and hospitalizations up across the U.S., here’s what you should know about testing safely and accurately as new variants circulate.
COVID tests can generally be divided into two camps: Rapid antigen tests and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests. Rapid tests are those tests you can do at home and provide results in about 15 ...
Long COVID, also known as post-COVID conditions, can encompass a wide range of symptoms that can last for weeks, months or even years after the initial infection, according to the CDC. In general ...
A PCR test, which is taken by a doctor and processed in a lab is more reliable in detecting if you are negative for COVID. If you take an antigen test, which is an at-home test, a negative result ...
In their recent study, Pollock and her co-authors estimated that a COVID-19 antigen test is somewhere between 30% and 60% accurate at detecting an infection on someone’s first day of symptoms ...
A study published in the Cochran Library found that at-home rapid tests have a 60% to 85% accuracy rate, depending on the test. They are more accurate for people with symptoms, about 72%, than for ...
Positive results from at-home Covid tests are usually accurate, says Vincent Covelli, M.D., a board-certified infectious disease physician with PlushCare.
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