All antigen? Yikes!
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The reports cited above donât indicate that antigen tests have stopped detecting at all; they indicate that itâs taking a much higher concentration of antigen to get a positive, such that one would be deep into the contagious period before showing a positive test.
Not good news, but also not catastrophic.
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At least in the ER, yes. Fortunately most of the hospital isnât completely overwhelmed and theyâve still got ICU capacity, but the ER is gettting overrun with nervous people who are just there to try to get tested.
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Antigen tests have never been the best for diagnostics, but in the past they used to be a good indicator if someone was currently likely to be contagious. If theyâre not good for that anymore with omicron and often give contagious people a false sense of security you have to question how useful they are right now. They probably still have a role to play but if misused they could potentially cause more harm than good.
âYeah boss, the test came back clear so Iâll be back into work tomorrow!â
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Donât forget fruits and vegetables!
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My wifeâs hospital only runs PCR tests, even for the ER. They can run a rapid PCR, and one that takes longer, and for the non-critical stuff they can send out the sample to a diagnostic company (which takes longest).
There is always a confusion where folk presume that rapid tests must be antigen tests, and PCR tests always take much longer. I was a bit surprised that your hospital was doing the opposite but these are strange times.
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Not my hospital, my sisterâs. And she was pretty clear about it being antigen and that it only cost the hospital about $5 to do these versus $26 or so for the rapid PCR. Not sure how widespread this practice is in US hospitals but it seems like a terrible time to make the switch.
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Right- so when I use one of my home tests after my upcoming Amtrak travel - instead of doing 15 swipes per nostril Iâll do 150.
Ouch!
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Itâs not exactly a secret that the MAGA crowd has a hard-on for bogus Covid-19 cures, but now itâs a LITERAL hard-on.
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This is so sad and could have been avoided.
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It made the Guardian too. This person really shouldnât be attending any sporting events period. Same with the F1 medical car driver who also refused to be vaccinated
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itâd be fascinating if it werenât so harmful.
why did they even need horse paste if chloroquine worked? why did they need bleach if zinc worked? why did they need anything if itâs just the flu?
i get that the point is that itâs not supposed to make sense - that being illogical is a feature not a bug - but why canât it make at least a little sense? please?
/sob
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So heâs saying COVID is killing lots of people and government should do something about it?
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The governing body of the sport should ban him and he really ought to be arrested on his return to Serbia.
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Ah, just what the pandemic needed⌠good old fashioned sports corruption
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