“This morning I felt tired, maybe a sore throat, was that a hint of a headache? “Took test, it was negative, immediately felt 100% fine.”“It’s funny how you start feeling better once that covid test comes back negative,” another person tweeted. Additionally, it’s important to remember that covid symptoms, whether from acute infections or “long covid,” are not “imagined symptoms that we can simply imagine away,” Nelson said. “If you have one negative test, but you have a strong suspicion that you’ve been exposed, you should get another test” one or two days later, he said. Among those using rapid antigen tests, “there’s a lot of people coming up with false negatives even when they have covid,” Nelson said.

Source: Washington Post June 18, 2022 01:38 UTC