The State Department has also said it will not be offering medical assistance to Americans who test positive or require a coronavirus test abroad because of the department’s “limited medical resources” outside the country. Experts say that while the bigger problem with rapid tests are false negatives returned from asymptomatic people, some rapid tests return a number of false positive results to healthy individuals. “And there are rapid tests with false positive rates even higher, about five percent. Conrad Hotels by Hilton, for example, charges $65 for a rapid coronavirus test and $185 for a PCR test. You just need to plan and know what the ramifications are if you test positive,” Sikes says.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2021 14:03 UTC