I understand Herbie being overly cautious. He is prone to bursting into tears over nothing at any time and when his tear ducts are working OT some Covid could infect him. Prayers for herbie.
I tested negative last week (military). Even after the test, I couldn’t go into work for 72 hours after the negative test to make sure new symptoms or more symptoms didn’t pop up. Shrugs shoulder. I felt good, so I was cool sitting home for 3 more days, lol.
Yes. Paranoid *** husband and wife vacationed at myrtle beach. On the way home they decided to pull in a testing site. They sat in their car, in line for almost 2 hours... Tired of waiting, they left. Received a letter in the mail that both had positive tests.
I’ve heard of this happening to others but I know for a fact of 2
Yes. Paranoid *** husband and wife vacationed at myrtle beach. On the way home they decided to pull in a testing site. They sat in their car, in line for almost 2 hours... Tired of waiting, they left. Received a letter in the mail that both had positive tests.
I’ve heard of this happening to others but I know for a fact of 2
I have a couple of friends that had the same thing happen to them. They could not believe that they received a positive test result, since they left before being tested.
Because the virus isn't demonstrable immediately after infection. It can take five days before the test will show it. Which is why testing immediately after contact is not necessarily the best timing.
Of course, if you really wanted to know, you could have used Google too.
Once youre in the testing system, it goes under the premise you're presumed to be infected. If you don't show for your test, they report it because no test result said you were clean.
This is also financially motivated.
Often, the testing center has a time window they hold for you. The only way they get reimbursed for their time allotted is to post a status to the system. They consider it dangerous to provide a "clean" status for "no shows", so their only choice is to report it as a SARS-CoV2 positive result/status.
I'd understand that logic to a teeny tiny small degree, other than the fact that it should be reported as "No Show For Testing - Presumed Positive".
If you ever want to freak out with the disparity between social media/press coverage versus cold hard facts, check out the real broken out data from cdc. It comes out each Wednesday.
Tabulated data on provisional COVID-19 deaths by age, ***, race and Hispanic origin, and comorbidities. Also includes an index of state-level and county-level mortality data available for download.
www.cdc.gov
Only 6% of cases are definitely covid. The others cases are people with covid in their system plus, on average, about 3 OTHER known causes!
More fascinating... the cdc reports deaths from all causes, every year.
With a population that's growing in size, but also aging, total deaths have gone up each and every year from, at least, 2009. It's been about 2.85 million prior to covid.
2020 total deaths, when annualized, would be about 2.76 million--- the first death downtrend since 2009.