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Germany has many test laboratories and a weekly test capacity of 160 thousand and could have a lower number of unrecorded cases of infections than for example Italy, though the number of tests including negative results was unknown until 23 March. [13] Italy has several times fewer hospital beds for intensive respiratory care than Germany.
Other symptoms are less common among people with COVID-19. Some people experience gastrointestinal symptoms such as loss of appetite, diarrhea, nausea or vomiting. [1] [65] A June 2020 systematic review reported a 8–12% prevalence of diarrhea, and 3–10% for nausea. [2] Less common symptoms include chills, coughing out blood, diarrhea, and rash.
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Take precautions, test again 48 hours later, and if the second test is negative, take a third test 48 hours later. If you have no COVID symptoms without any known exposure , you probably don’t ...
Scanning electron micrograph of SARS virions. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the disease caused by SARS-CoV-1. It causes an often severe illness and is marked initially by systemic symptoms of muscle pain, headache, and fever, followed in 2–14 days by the onset of respiratory symptoms, [13] mainly cough, dyspnea, and pneumonia.
If you have COVID symptoms, test immediately. If you test negative using an at-home test, repeat the test again in 48 hours. If you were exposed to COVID, test at least 5 full days after exposure.
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.
A man from Ludwigsburg with flu symptoms who had tested negative for influenza virus was automatically tested for SARS-CoV-2 and confirmed positive. A man from Rhine-Neckar returning from a short ski holiday with mild cold symptoms checked himself in to the emergency department of the University Hospital Heidelberg and tested positive.