If you are at risk of severe outcomes because of your age or preexisting conditions, you should try to get highly effective antivirals or monoclonal antibodies as soon as you test positive. "If your husband is positive, and you develop symptoms, and you have a negative rapid and then the subsequent day you have a negative rapid - I would still personally do a PCR before I called myself in the clear," Bergstrom says.Īnd should I contact my doctor if I have a positive test? If you've developed symptoms after close, significant contact, you might consider getting a PCR even after negative rapid tests. That's because for rapid home tests to turn positive, you need a higher viral load: Those antigen tests don't amplify the sample as PCR tests do.įor those with prior immunity to the virus, "most people feel that a PCR is positive 24 hours sooner than the rapid," says Ida Bergstrom, an internal medicine physician at a medical and travel clinic that conducts testing in Washington, D.C.t. Now if you do go for a PCR test, you won't have quite the same concerns. Testing experts suggest an interval of 48 hours before a second test. "You need to use them in the pair that they come in, and have multiple days in between, in order to be sure."Īnd for that second test, waiting a few hours doesn't count because your viral load still might not be high enough to detect. The rapid test for COVID is "an excellent test - it just has to be used properly and at the right time."Īnd there's a reason tests come in pairs of two, Garner said. "You can't take a pregnancy test the day after intercourse to see if you're pregnant, right?" Bergstrom said. Testing too soon might give you a false negative.
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It takes a little while for the virus to build up in your body. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is to wait five days after a possible exposure.
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You might be tempted to test right away to ease your anxiety. "If you are going to be around the vulnerable population that can't be protected from the disease – and, unfortunately, we have a lot of people that fall into that category - then you should do everything in your power to try and make sure you don't have the virus," said Omai Garner, director of clinical microbiology in the UCLA Health System. Test number one would come when you first have concerns that you are infected based on symptoms.Īnd if you've been exposed to someone with COVID or were in a higher-risk situation (traveling, karaoke party, Gridiron dinner) and then plan to be around an older relative or a child too young to be vaccinated or someone who's immune-compromised? That's why experts recommend testing at least twice. That can happen if you have some degree of immunity from a prior case or a vaccination but you get infected anyway (see: Nancy Pelosi). Or you might not have enough "viral load" in the early stages of being infected to test positive. So it's possible that the negative result is correct and you simply didn't get infected. Your body's response to SARS-CoV-2 infection depends on your level of immunity from previous encounters with the virus and from vaccines and boosters. Our experts suggest testing again after a couple of days.
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Are you in the clear? Maybe, but not definitively. So you may be wondering: When do I need to test now? And can I trust a first test result?įirst off: If you develop COVID-like symptoms, test as soon as possible.Īnd let's assume you're going to self-test because you don't have easy access to a facility that offers PCR tests and/or your insurance doesn't cover it and/or you don't want to wait extra time for results rather than an instant read off a do-it-yourself antigen test. Testing for COVID is as critical now as it was in earlier stages of the pandemic in order to understand where cases are rising and so that you can seek treatment. Many of us are returning from spring break travel and holiday celebrations with loved ones just as cases in parts of the United States - and in some other countries - are starting to tick back up.
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