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

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   If you still test negative, wait 48 more hours and test for a final time. In both cases, if you’d rather not wait, you can obtain a PCR, or polymerase chain reaction, test at a doctor’s office.

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

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   False positives "can happen with any test" and, if someone tests positive for COVID-19 with a rapid test but does not have symptoms, he recommends following up with a PCR test to confirm that this ...

4. You can still be contagious with COVID if you have a negative ...

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   If you get two negative at-home COVID test results 48 hours apart after previously testing positive, you are likely no longer contagious. But how long that will take is "wholly dependent on the ...

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. Symptoms of COVID-19 - Wikipedia

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   [84] [87] A study that took a deeper look into these specific symptoms took 50 SARS-CoV-2 laboratory-positive patients and 50 SARS-CoV-2 laboratory-negative patients to analyze the variety of neurologic symptoms present during long COVID. The most frequent symptoms included brain fog, headache, numbness, dysgeusia (loss of taste), anosmia (loss ...

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

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   In the most basic sense, there are four possible outcomes for a COVID-19 test, whether it’s molecular PCR or rapid antigen: true positive, true negative, false positive, and false negative.

8. COVID-19 rapid antigen test - Wikipedia

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   COVID-19 rapid antigen tests (RATs) have been widely used for diagnosis of COVID-19. The World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 Case Definition states that a person with a positive RAT (also known as an antigen rapid diagnostic test or Antigen-RDT) can be considered a "confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 infection" in two ways. [10]

9. Yes, You Can ‘Test Out’ Of COVID Isolation—Here Are The Rules

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   Yes, you can still test positive for COVID after seven days with either test. While Dr. Adalja says that’s especially true with PCR tests, it also can be the case with antigen tests.