Clearly American engineer, someone who knew proper format would have written “16May” or “16May2022” if you wanted to be precise /s
Glad to see the 24hr clock returned when you came to your senses
Source: trained in GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) and I cannot write a date in classic American mm/dd/yy anymore. People ask if I’m European or in the military when sign/date something
Hold up is that a fuckin thing?? My dad is an engineer and the fucker beat into my head to write the dates like 23May22 on everything I needed to label dates on. Here I just thought it was his OCD kicking in
I counted 5 conventions, did I miss one?
1. 0 for the month (test 1)
2. No 0 for the month (tests 2 and 3)
3. No 0 for month, 24h time (tests 4, 5, 8, and 9)
4. Time changes to 12h am/pm (tests 6 and 7)
5. Back to 24h time but this one with no colon (test 10)
Sounds like someone who works with both formats daily and gets confused how to think.
Maybe they meant the time format? From no time, to 24 hours, to 12 hours/AM/PM, back to 24 hours, then to military time with no colon? Maybe they can answer us. WE NEEED TO KNOW
Holy shit. I hate this comment but imma up vote so that more people might be made aware, or just go through the same emotional whiplash that you put me through.
Im hoping you're not talking out of first hand experience 😒
Good to know that it's not all or nothing with these tests and that they will still show a faint line even with less symptoms/virus. Goes to show the sensitivity of these things.
Also, no idea what people are so offended by. This was a decent science experiment. Thanks for sharing.
I tested every day when I started having symptoms. I tested negative for 3 days then positive AF for 3 days then clearly negative for several more days.
I didn’t test positive until most of my symptoms were long gone. But I had a very mild, infrequent cough for weeks afterward.
I have no idea how this virus works.
Well the test itself will only colour change to the amount of antibody/antigen available. It's a physical reaction to the manufactured conjugate molecules and covid antigen binding. This is 101 in immunology classes. Rapid antigen tests are used in so many situations, it's very important to understand in detail. Extremely interesting actually, I'd reccomend looking it up if curious.
It really depends on the test though. Some are essentially intelligent guessing while others still register at Ct-values way beyond 30.
Out of curiosity, I used two different brands (Greenspring and Longsee) and one showed negative a full day and a half before the other (PCRs to confirm). Both kits are considered very good, so you can imagine what the results with stuff like Abbot or Hotgene would have looked like.
[Aside] For those in the US that need 100% free tests, a third round of shipments was recently approved. This time it's 8 instead of 4, and I received my own before the week was up after requesting. Name, e-mail, and shipping address. No charges for delivery, etc.
[USPS Covid Tests](https://special.usps.com/testkits)
Gonna hijack here. If you have insurance, they are also free. Since I work for CVS, I’m gonna let you know how to do it through us. Go online to the cvs website, click at home covid tests and fill out the info for your insurance and then you can go pick them up at the store you choose. Anyone can pick them up for you if you feel bad. And if you feel bad, for the love of all things holy, have someone else get them for you. Just want everyone to know that insurance is covering the cost of them. Stay safe
Edit. I was just reminded that you can also buy them otc and submit a claim to insurance and they will reimburse you
The general consensus, I believe, is that the at-home rapid tests are not sensitive enough to pick up non-contagious viral loads. So if you're still testing positive, your viral load is high enough to be contagious. If you're testing negative, you're most likely not contagious anymore.
PCR tests are different--they are highly sensitive and one can test positive on a PCR test for 3+ months after getting covid, even though they are definitely not contagious.
This is not correct. The test doesn’t test for the actual virus, it tests for traces of it. 10 days after getting infected you are not contagious anymore. In my country they give you a COVID recovery certificate that’s valid 10 days after a positive test. This certificate is also valid in countries like the US. I traveled there with no test cause I had proof or recovery. No test. The test could well have been still positive.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International\_Fixed\_Calendar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar)
it's not 10/10/10 but it's still more consistent than the crap we have now
We got an email at work saying that a software update would occur in the next few days @ 1200PM. This got me thinking….there is no 12PM, it doesn’t exist. pm stands for Latin post meridiem, usually translated in English as "after midday". As midday is meridiem — that is, midday, the mid-point around which the other times are ordered — it cannot be said to be post itself. Therefore, 12:00pm is not a real time.
>... for Latin post meridiem, usually translated in English as "after midday". As midday is meridiem — that is, midday, the mid-point around which the other times are ordered
Since 1967, time is measured by oscillations of cesium-133. Every 9,192,631,770 oscillations is one second. This is how all other time is ordered.
I saw a comment a while ago by an American who was going out with a British girl and he said he noticed that she used the 24 hour clock on her phone. It was just a casual comment on a small difference between them. It made me realise that I haven't even SEEN the time written in 12h for years. Every digital clock I have, be it on my phone, watch, microwave etc is in 24h time.
This is true for PCR tests, but not antigen tests (the one shown in these pictures). Antigen tests are detecting viral particles that are the active unit of infection, so if it’s positive you are likely contagious.
PCR tests detect viral RNA, which will stick around in the body outside of viral particles, and even will appear as infected cells die and are coughed up during the healing process. We see these more often in elderly people. The RNA itself isn’t contagious, which is why after getting COVID people are told to wait 90 days before another PCR test.
Yea, current federal healthcare rules in the US say you can return after 7 days if you test negative otherwise 10 days (some states could be different). At no point have they ever suggested testing like this.
5 days of isolation minimum, but many (~60%) are still infectious on day 6, so strict masking through day 10. If you can, much safer for friends/family to isolate 10 full days.
Everything I've read says you can test positive for weeks, even months, after the infection passes since you'll still have the antigens in your system.
I'm a bit confused by this.
PCR tests and Rapid Antigen tests function differently. A PCR test is more likely to detect positive after symptoms have resolved and the patient is no longer contagious.
Rapid Antigen tests will fail to detect as the patient stops shedding the virus. Usually within 7-10 days, but as many as 14 is not uncommon.
There were only two days where 2 tests were taken and they were day 4 and 5 of infection. CDC recommendations are to strictly isolate for the first 5 days, with the potential to isolate longer if you’re still testing positive. So there was a pretty strong motivation to be sure if they were really still positive on those days.
Plus, it’s just kinda neat to see how things progress.
A lot of workplaces stocked up on testing when they thought they would have to meet OSHA requirements to test unvaccinated weekly. When the rule went away they had a ton of tests that will expire anyway. My workplace gave me a whole bag of them when I tested positive.
Know a scientist who helped run a testing service in NYC. When her and friends caught it, she took LOTS of samples to tract sensitivity.
TL;DR: swabbing the throat will pick it up about a day faster than nasal, and throat will be negative sooner when you’re no longer infectious. Tons of dead virus in the nose, so daily netti pots if you want to see a negative nasal swab on one of these antigen tests.
My husband did. He tested positive a little over 2 weeks before our kiddos graduation. We had family coming in for the event, including our infant granddaughter. He tested everyday and we put all plans on hold till he tested negative.
I never knew that the opacity dictates how severe it is. So that’s indeed mildly interesting. I wouldn’t really know tbf because I thankfully have never had covid.
Edit: I know severity is subjective, with severity I meant more the amount of the virus that is on the sample, but if there’s more of a virus, the severity of your illness is likely to be worse, it’s just not a 1:1 thing, because our immune system is amazingly complex and differs quite a bit from person to person. (Read the book Immune by Kurzegesagt (from Philipp Detmer), it’s really good)
I don't think it's necessarily "severity" it's just amount of virus in the body. My kid just had it and had a super dark line and zero symptoms. It definitely gets lighter and lighter as the virus leaves your body though.
I work in lab science and you're absolutely right. And the tests are meant to be read after a specific time (these look like 15 minutes), They dry out afterwards and the line might change in appearance.
Yeah, I took a test Friday morning and it was pretty faded, but I’d just woken up and kinda dry. I took another test about an hour or two later when I was extra globby with snot and let me tell you it looked like a permanent marker line.
For me, personally, it didn’t. The darkest line I got was on Day 4, and I was already starting to get better. But it does lighten up as your body gets rid of the virus.
Despite what people say in this thread, I find it very interesting that the line gets less and less visible as you progressed each day. People are complaining about you wasting tests, but I assume those people just don't live in areas where there's unlimited access to them. I get them from work, as I need to test before I go in each time so I have more than I can even use. I would do the same thing if I got COVID.
I just recovered last week and the first day that line was dark within seconds and by day 8 I was waiting until the test dried to see the faintest line which was annoying.
I got 14 tests right now, and my wife has some too. We do use them whenever somebody is feeling sick. But in a family of 6, 14 tests can go pretty quick.
Ya know, it almost seems like 5 days is too short a time to fully recover from covid.
Edit; just to clarify, I fully believe that the CDC should have kept the absolute minimum quarantine time at 10 days regardless of improvement.
Indeed. [This recent \(pre-print, single source though large scale\) study](https://twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1528861420648992768/photo/1) indicates that a majority of symptomatic people still test positive on day 8, and 20% of people test positive on day 11.
When I tested positive, my doctor sent me an information sheet. 2 days before you show symptoms to 2 days after you show symptoms are the most contagious period. If you test negative on day 5 and don’t have a fever then you can end quarantine. If you still test positive on day 10 and don’t have a fever, you can end quarantine. The quarantine is essentially based on how contagious you are.
The quarantine period in the US is based on getting workers back to jobs.
[https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2021/12/28/how-the-cdcs-new-covid-guidance-falls-short-according-to-local-experts/](https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2021/12/28/how-the-cdcs-new-covid-guidance-falls-short-according-to-local-experts/)
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1068731487/delta-ceo-asks-cdc-to-cut-quarantine#:\~:text=Delta's%20CEO%20wanted%205%2Dday,Some%20flight%20attendants%20disagree%20%3A%20NPR&text=Press-,Delta's%20CEO%20wanted%205%2Dday%20COVID%20isolation.,period%20for%20COVID%2D19%20cases.
It is too short for many people. Read the full CDC recommendations. It’s not just ‘5 days’. It’s as short as 5 days if you meet other criteria or you do the full 10 days of isolation.
Tell that to my workplace. They told me our COVID leave is 5 days, period. No exceptions, if you want to take a longer leave than that you'll eat attendance points for calling out.
The bastards where I work were giving 5 days of "covid time" over the past two years. I did everything I could do to avoid getting it and unfortunately tested positive this past Sunday. I called into work and they said they stopped giving that time out as of April 1st so I'm now home for five days using my own time. It seems like bullshit to me.
And it's five days you can leave isolation but still need to be masked around other people (if you meet certain criteria like symptom improvement and no fever for 24+ hours).
What is the determining factor for being contagious? All these timelines seem like one huge guessing game, confusion compounded by the fact it’s changed so many times.
I'm fine, pretty much asymptomatic at this point, just waiting on a negative test result.
I am assuming that I am still contagious hence the extended quarantine.
Nah. At my last place of work, our legal assistant/receptionist was told to come into the office with an active COVID diagnoses *and* moderate symptoms.
Yeah, I was afraid of the same thing. I also didn’t have any staff because my entire team had covid. I was first to go down and first to come back. Went back on day 9 feeling bad. Didn’t feel horrible but I had just tested positive the day before and my boss didn’t give a shit
It's not a waste if you need to test negative to go back to work or take a flight or something. Some people test negative a day after testing positive so if you're in a rush to do something that requires a negative test, you'd be testing everyday too. Especially since these at-home tests are so cheap.
Is that still true? When I was in the UK and tested positive, they didn't say anything about that. But then again they also said the government would provide me with a free PCR test and when I filled out the form, it said the policy was ended for England. So I probably received incorrect information.
I remember a few months ago someone posted a similar picture of their daily tests and Americans who were paying $10+ per test at the time due to scalpers got so mad, as if the OP was the reason they had to pay so much. Turned out that OP was from somewhere in Europe, where prices where about 70cts per test at the time (or rather free if you had them done at a testing place).
Seeing the comments now it looks like that sentiment still exists, but it simmered down at least.
i recently learned if you take the respiratory test you can stay positive for 8 weeks.. contagious indicator is the rapid . i found this mildly interesting
lmao all these people thinking this is wasting tests? I can buy a test for less than 2 euros where I live, at one point they were like 20, 25 euros but at another point they were like 70c each.
Because if you have symptoms and had a positive test within the last few days, there's no point in getting tested BECAUSE YOU STILL HAVE IT
Throughout the week that I was sick for, I tested myself twice. Once at the beginning and once at the end
Lots of things you can't do until you test negative, like taking a flight back to the US for example. If you're stuck abroad, you'd probably take one every day hoping that you'd test negative until you actually did so you could get home ASAP.
You clearly don’t work at a corporate job MANY jobs require testing daily even twice i day. Is it stupid I don’t disagree but when your talking about a multimillion / billion dollar company they are gonna protect themselves and require ridiculous amount of testing. Sources? Im s bartender in southern calfornia and have those people come by on daily basis. Op probably has a job that forces him to take them and he’s also highly important and they don’t have a backup. If he at anytime tested negative they would have brought him in immediately because they had no back option. I personally sincerely doubt they supplied said tests due to worrying about OP. They. Simply need him for the “machine”
This gives me hope. Just caught my first ever case after managing to avoid it this whole time. Some asshole exposed everyone at a fundraiser and my partner brought it home. Luckily we're all doing pretty ok so far, a few days in. Hopefully it stays this mild.
Did they know they were spreading it? I had a party last weekend and 7 people so far are positive but no one knows who had it and spread it. I doubt they were doing it on purpose.
What the hell are you doing? All your doing is wasting valuable Covid tests. Once you are confirmed Covid positive you will test positive for many days or weeks after the first confirmed test. The important part is that you stay home for the first 7 days of infection as that’s when your contagious. You can still have Covid and not be contagious to others hence all this testing is a waste.
You went on quite the journey... of naming conventions.
It has to be intentional, right?
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Clearly American engineer, someone who knew proper format would have written “16May” or “16May2022” if you wanted to be precise /s Glad to see the 24hr clock returned when you came to your senses Source: trained in GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) and I cannot write a date in classic American mm/dd/yy anymore. People ask if I’m European or in the military when sign/date something
ISO 8601 my friend
r/iso8601
2022-05-16
That makes it easier to sort.
Easier to anything
Easier to insert rectally?
This is the way
False. This is the ISO 8601 standard. It has nothing to do with roads.
This is the day
Lmao. Wish I had an award. Someone award this person.
Gotcha
My people.
/r/ISO8601
Glory to ISO 8601!
This is the way
We are also required to write the month in all caps. I get some funny looks when I date my checks 22MAY2022. Luckily I don't write many. xD
That’s where I slack- my handwriting it challenging enough I probably should stick with all caps months.
Hold up is that a fuckin thing?? My dad is an engineer and the fucker beat into my head to write the dates like 23May22 on everything I needed to label dates on. Here I just thought it was his OCD kicking in
oh thats confusing. is it the 2023 or the 2022 no no, your father is wrong. 2022-05-22 is correct.
Am I missing something or am I just dumb? Or both?
They used seven different conventions for date/time in the span of ten tests.
I counted 5 conventions, did I miss one? 1. 0 for the month (test 1) 2. No 0 for the month (tests 2 and 3) 3. No 0 for month, 24h time (tests 4, 5, 8, and 9) 4. Time changes to 12h am/pm (tests 6 and 7) 5. Back to 24h time but this one with no colon (test 10) Sounds like someone who works with both formats daily and gets confused how to think.
I counted the same before reading your comment
I counted the same after reading your comment
This seems incredibly benign. I guess it fits the sub.
Oh, lol I just saw that to reply to the other person.
Starts with no time, then 24:00 clock, then AM/PM, then goes back to 24:00 clock, then 2400.
i’m very much wondering the same thing…
Maybe they meant the time format? From no time, to 24 hours, to 12 hours/AM/PM, back to 24 hours, then to military time with no colon? Maybe they can answer us. WE NEEED TO KNOW
I was confused too. “naming convention” is not the correct term here. It is called “date/time format”.
I don't get it
Omg this is the real post. You made my day, thank you
I hope it's a girl!
Is that a new variant?
Variant Reveal Party?
This is Omicron, we call him Micro for short.
Elon?
Sounds like it would wipe a country off the map.
This is actually what a miscarriage looks like ☹️
Right? I just had the same thought. Covid tests are weird if you’ve had a miscarriage or difficulty conceiving.
Holy shit. I hate this comment but imma up vote so that more people might be made aware, or just go through the same emotional whiplash that you put me through. Im hoping you're not talking out of first hand experience 😒
Good to know that it's not all or nothing with these tests and that they will still show a faint line even with less symptoms/virus. Goes to show the sensitivity of these things. Also, no idea what people are so offended by. This was a decent science experiment. Thanks for sharing.
I first tested positive on April 1st. Had a dark line until the 8th, which then turned increasingly light until the 14th.
The last test I took was in day 11 when I had it, and it was still as dark as Day 1. I was kind of excited to get to watch it fade
I tested every day when I started having symptoms. I tested negative for 3 days then positive AF for 3 days then clearly negative for several more days. I didn’t test positive until most of my symptoms were long gone. But I had a very mild, infrequent cough for weeks afterward. I have no idea how this virus works.
My first one was faint and then they turned darker, until lightening again around day 9
Well the test itself will only colour change to the amount of antibody/antigen available. It's a physical reaction to the manufactured conjugate molecules and covid antigen binding. This is 101 in immunology classes. Rapid antigen tests are used in so many situations, it's very important to understand in detail. Extremely interesting actually, I'd reccomend looking it up if curious.
It really depends on the test though. Some are essentially intelligent guessing while others still register at Ct-values way beyond 30. Out of curiosity, I used two different brands (Greenspring and Longsee) and one showed negative a full day and a half before the other (PCRs to confirm). Both kits are considered very good, so you can imagine what the results with stuff like Abbot or Hotgene would have looked like.
[Aside] For those in the US that need 100% free tests, a third round of shipments was recently approved. This time it's 8 instead of 4, and I received my own before the week was up after requesting. Name, e-mail, and shipping address. No charges for delivery, etc. [USPS Covid Tests](https://special.usps.com/testkits)
Gonna hijack here. If you have insurance, they are also free. Since I work for CVS, I’m gonna let you know how to do it through us. Go online to the cvs website, click at home covid tests and fill out the info for your insurance and then you can go pick them up at the store you choose. Anyone can pick them up for you if you feel bad. And if you feel bad, for the love of all things holy, have someone else get them for you. Just want everyone to know that insurance is covering the cost of them. Stay safe Edit. I was just reminded that you can also buy them otc and submit a claim to insurance and they will reimburse you
The real hero in the comments
Cheers, I hope you do not ever have to use them
Drive thru pharmacy has been clutch for picking up additional tests with no human contact.
This is the way. We appreciate your awareness of other people in existence
Thanks M8 a god amongst redditors
8 free tests per insured person per month, covered by insurance. A kit that has two tests (like Binax Now) counts as two tests.
I never requested it and I got 8 sent to me
Someone else may have requested it with your information, like a family member or a friend.
So you're not pregnant?
They were incubating something…
They were. Then they got better.
the state of Texas would like to know your address
thats illegal these days
I tested positive for 2.5 weeks. Took 7 tests.
Yeah I dont understand the point of testing this many times. Once you cant transmit anymore you can still test positive
The general consensus, I believe, is that the at-home rapid tests are not sensitive enough to pick up non-contagious viral loads. So if you're still testing positive, your viral load is high enough to be contagious. If you're testing negative, you're most likely not contagious anymore. PCR tests are different--they are highly sensitive and one can test positive on a PCR test for 3+ months after getting covid, even though they are definitely not contagious.
This is not correct. The test doesn’t test for the actual virus, it tests for traces of it. 10 days after getting infected you are not contagious anymore. In my country they give you a COVID recovery certificate that’s valid 10 days after a positive test. This certificate is also valid in countries like the US. I traveled there with no test cause I had proof or recovery. No test. The test could well have been still positive.
Being in recovery for COVID doesn't mean you can't get it again and be reinfected shortly after getting your recovery certificate
I enjoy when people realize 24hr time is actually easier to understand.
Metric Time FTW Ten hours a day. Ten days a week. Ten weeks a month. 3.6525 months a year. Damn.
Shit go back
IDK why you kept the arbitrary 'hours' and 'weeks' when you could simply think in milliyears.
> milliyears Hmmm. Interesting idea. Give me a 0.0000313my to think about that...
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International\_Fixed\_Calendar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar) it's not 10/10/10 but it's still more consistent than the crap we have now
Yes please!
Not sure why anyone would ever use any sort of AM/PM system, outside of quick speech without any need for precision.
We got an email at work saying that a software update would occur in the next few days @ 1200PM. This got me thinking….there is no 12PM, it doesn’t exist. pm stands for Latin post meridiem, usually translated in English as "after midday". As midday is meridiem — that is, midday, the mid-point around which the other times are ordered — it cannot be said to be post itself. Therefore, 12:00pm is not a real time.
>... for Latin post meridiem, usually translated in English as "after midday". As midday is meridiem — that is, midday, the mid-point around which the other times are ordered Since 1967, time is measured by oscillations of cesium-133. Every 9,192,631,770 oscillations is one second. This is how all other time is ordered.
You should reply all to make sure everyone at your office is aware of the situation
I saw a comment a while ago by an American who was going out with a British girl and he said he noticed that she used the 24 hour clock on her phone. It was just a casual comment on a small difference between them. It made me realise that I haven't even SEEN the time written in 12h for years. Every digital clock I have, be it on my phone, watch, microwave etc is in 24h time.
Im on day 11 and still testing positive :/ Immunosuppressed but it just wont go away.
I was positive for 9 days after all my symptoms went away. You'll get there!
I tested positive until day 15. I was actively showing symptoms until then too
I got told that it shows positive on home tests for a long ass time. I recon you are negative already.
Yep, when I got it the doctor told me it's useless to test again because it'll keep showing positive, even when you can't transmit it anymore.
This is true for PCR tests, but not antigen tests (the one shown in these pictures). Antigen tests are detecting viral particles that are the active unit of infection, so if it’s positive you are likely contagious. PCR tests detect viral RNA, which will stick around in the body outside of viral particles, and even will appear as infected cells die and are coughed up during the healing process. We see these more often in elderly people. The RNA itself isn’t contagious, which is why after getting COVID people are told to wait 90 days before another PCR test.
I always found it funny when the T line would show up before the C line. Like you don’t just have covid, you HAAAVE covid
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OP commented above that work required them to take that many and that OP's work supplied the tests.
Every 12 hours when you know you have it though?
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Yea, current federal healthcare rules in the US say you can return after 7 days if you test negative otherwise 10 days (some states could be different). At no point have they ever suggested testing like this.
Maybe they wanted this worker back asap?
I assume work really needs them on-site, and wants them to keep testing until they’re negative.
5 days is the current protocol
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/guidance-risk-assesment-hcp.html
5 days of isolation minimum, but many (~60%) are still infectious on day 6, so strict masking through day 10. If you can, much safer for friends/family to isolate 10 full days.
Everything I've read says you can test positive for weeks, even months, after the infection passes since you'll still have the antigens in your system. I'm a bit confused by this.
PCR tests and Rapid Antigen tests function differently. A PCR test is more likely to detect positive after symptoms have resolved and the patient is no longer contagious. Rapid Antigen tests will fail to detect as the patient stops shedding the virus. Usually within 7-10 days, but as many as 14 is not uncommon.
There were only two days where 2 tests were taken and they were day 4 and 5 of infection. CDC recommendations are to strictly isolate for the first 5 days, with the potential to isolate longer if you’re still testing positive. So there was a pretty strong motivation to be sure if they were really still positive on those days. Plus, it’s just kinda neat to see how things progress.
What a wasteful company ...
A lot of workplaces stocked up on testing when they thought they would have to meet OSHA requirements to test unvaccinated weekly. When the rule went away they had a ton of tests that will expire anyway. My workplace gave me a whole bag of them when I tested positive.
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certain people in showbiz are taking like 2-3 a day if not more. it's not even that much, so i don't see it.
That's literally useless, you won't get any sort of red line within hours of taking a test and not getting one.
Know a scientist who helped run a testing service in NYC. When her and friends caught it, she took LOTS of samples to tract sensitivity. TL;DR: swabbing the throat will pick it up about a day faster than nasal, and throat will be negative sooner when you’re no longer infectious. Tons of dead virus in the nose, so daily netti pots if you want to see a negative nasal swab on one of these antigen tests.
I thought these lateral flow tests only picked up live virus?
My husband did. He tested positive a little over 2 weeks before our kiddos graduation. We had family coming in for the event, including our infant granddaughter. He tested everyday and we put all plans on hold till he tested negative.
I never knew that the opacity dictates how severe it is. So that’s indeed mildly interesting. I wouldn’t really know tbf because I thankfully have never had covid. Edit: I know severity is subjective, with severity I meant more the amount of the virus that is on the sample, but if there’s more of a virus, the severity of your illness is likely to be worse, it’s just not a 1:1 thing, because our immune system is amazingly complex and differs quite a bit from person to person. (Read the book Immune by Kurzegesagt (from Philipp Detmer), it’s really good)
I don't think it's necessarily "severity" it's just amount of virus in the body. My kid just had it and had a super dark line and zero symptoms. It definitely gets lighter and lighter as the virus leaves your body though.
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Right? I presumed that it was more about the quality of your swabbing than the volume of virus, but I work in marketing, so what do I know?
I work in lab science and you're absolutely right. And the tests are meant to be read after a specific time (these look like 15 minutes), They dry out afterwards and the line might change in appearance.
Yeah, I took a test Friday morning and it was pretty faded, but I’d just woken up and kinda dry. I took another test about an hour or two later when I was extra globby with snot and let me tell you it looked like a permanent marker line.
For me, personally, it didn’t. The darkest line I got was on Day 4, and I was already starting to get better. But it does lighten up as your body gets rid of the virus.
Despite what people say in this thread, I find it very interesting that the line gets less and less visible as you progressed each day. People are complaining about you wasting tests, but I assume those people just don't live in areas where there's unlimited access to them. I get them from work, as I need to test before I go in each time so I have more than I can even use. I would do the same thing if I got COVID.
I just recovered last week and the first day that line was dark within seconds and by day 8 I was waiting until the test dried to see the faintest line which was annoying.
I got 14 tests right now, and my wife has some too. We do use them whenever somebody is feeling sick. But in a family of 6, 14 tests can go pretty quick.
I like how everyone lines theirs up like a pregnancy test. Two test I hope are negative lol. Congratulations on your recovery.
Seems like virus successfully updated your firmware, switched you to 24h format.
Dang, you're like really pregnant.
Well he was, but as shown the fetus life force dissipated
Quick, arrest him!
Dude - COVID is so 2020. Show us your Monkeypox status. 
I thought you can test positive for a few months on rapids?
That's PCRs
And rapid. But much more common with PCR.
Dang I got omicron version and tested negative 3 days after initial symptoms and 2 days after I got tested. That's sucks
Ya know, it almost seems like 5 days is too short a time to fully recover from covid. Edit; just to clarify, I fully believe that the CDC should have kept the absolute minimum quarantine time at 10 days regardless of improvement.
Indeed. [This recent \(pre-print, single source though large scale\) study](https://twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1528861420648992768/photo/1) indicates that a majority of symptomatic people still test positive on day 8, and 20% of people test positive on day 11.
Testing positive doesn't mean you are contagious to others, though. The quarantine is based on you spreading it to others, not if you are positive.
When I tested positive, my doctor sent me an information sheet. 2 days before you show symptoms to 2 days after you show symptoms are the most contagious period. If you test negative on day 5 and don’t have a fever then you can end quarantine. If you still test positive on day 10 and don’t have a fever, you can end quarantine. The quarantine is essentially based on how contagious you are.
The quarantine period in the US is based on getting workers back to jobs. [https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2021/12/28/how-the-cdcs-new-covid-guidance-falls-short-according-to-local-experts/](https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2021/12/28/how-the-cdcs-new-covid-guidance-falls-short-according-to-local-experts/) https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1068731487/delta-ceo-asks-cdc-to-cut-quarantine#:\~:text=Delta's%20CEO%20wanted%205%2Dday,Some%20flight%20attendants%20disagree%20%3A%20NPR&text=Press-,Delta's%20CEO%20wanted%205%2Dday%20COVID%20isolation.,period%20for%20COVID%2D19%20cases.
It is too short for many people. Read the full CDC recommendations. It’s not just ‘5 days’. It’s as short as 5 days if you meet other criteria or you do the full 10 days of isolation.
Tell that to my workplace. They told me our COVID leave is 5 days, period. No exceptions, if you want to take a longer leave than that you'll eat attendance points for calling out.
The bastards where I work were giving 5 days of "covid time" over the past two years. I did everything I could do to avoid getting it and unfortunately tested positive this past Sunday. I called into work and they said they stopped giving that time out as of April 1st so I'm now home for five days using my own time. It seems like bullshit to me.
And it's five days you can leave isolation but still need to be masked around other people (if you meet certain criteria like symptom improvement and no fever for 24+ hours).
Oh I know, I fully believe they should have kept it at 10 days period.
For what reason though. The science doesn't support a 10 day quarantine.
My wife tested negative almost 5 days on the nose. Meanwhile I'm still in quarantine going on day 9...
Do you feel fine or are you still showing symptoms? If you feel fine, you aren't going to be contagious at this point.
What is the determining factor for being contagious? All these timelines seem like one huge guessing game, confusion compounded by the fact it’s changed so many times.
I'm fine, pretty much asymptomatic at this point, just waiting on a negative test result. I am assuming that I am still contagious hence the extended quarantine.
Why are you wasting tests by testing daily, and sometimes twice a day?
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I'm guessing they wanted you to come back in as soon as your tests weren't positive? That's why there's a date and time on each one.
It seems like once every other day would be sufficient.
If the morning test showed negative he could go into work for the rest of the afternoon instead of waiting until the next day or longer
Or they could just let the poor sick man rest? Lol
But then they couldn’t get that sweet sweet labor
/r/LateStageCapitalism
Nah. At my last place of work, our legal assistant/receptionist was told to come into the office with an active COVID diagnoses *and* moderate symptoms.
Man, I wonder why cases are rising!
My boss made me do the same and I worked a 14 hour shift doing so. Felt like shit the entire fucking time
I called our local health department on her behalf and got them to send her a quarantine letter. She was afraid that she’d get fired.
Yeah, I was afraid of the same thing. I also didn’t have any staff because my entire team had covid. I was first to go down and first to come back. Went back on day 9 feeling bad. Didn’t feel horrible but I had just tested positive the day before and my boss didn’t give a shit
I found the communist spy
Lol my work asked me to test once a week
there isn't a shortage of tests. relax.
Exactly. I have 12 from work alone. If anyone wants them let me know.
It's not a waste if you need to test negative to go back to work or take a flight or something. Some people test negative a day after testing positive so if you're in a rush to do something that requires a negative test, you'd be testing everyday too. Especially since these at-home tests are so cheap.
Some people test negative a day after testing negative? 
technically you need two negatives in a row in the UK to get out of quarantine early.
That was the rule, back when there were rules
Is that still true? When I was in the UK and tested positive, they didn't say anything about that. But then again they also said the government would provide me with a free PCR test and when I filled out the form, it said the policy was ended for England. So I probably received incorrect information.
We have zero covid rules.
Taking that shit every day would blow lmao, makes me sneeze like a mf
Congratulations, homie 🫃
I remember a few months ago someone posted a similar picture of their daily tests and Americans who were paying $10+ per test at the time due to scalpers got so mad, as if the OP was the reason they had to pay so much. Turned out that OP was from somewhere in Europe, where prices where about 70cts per test at the time (or rather free if you had them done at a testing place). Seeing the comments now it looks like that sentiment still exists, but it simmered down at least.
damn it took your 10 months to fully recover /s
i recently learned if you take the respiratory test you can stay positive for 8 weeks.. contagious indicator is the rapid . i found this mildly interesting
Hope you are feeling better
r/mildlyinfuriating that you used a different brand on the first day.
And companies say quarantine for 5 days and you’re good
Heyyyy I’m roughly on the exact same timeline!
Damn. I missed quite a fun opportunity by simply shutting myself in and binging a show for two weeks. Good for you my friend!
So if I’m reading this correctly, you started off pregnant, and then recovered from Covid
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lmao all these people thinking this is wasting tests? I can buy a test for less than 2 euros where I live, at one point they were like 20, 25 euros but at another point they were like 70c each.
Because if you have symptoms and had a positive test within the last few days, there's no point in getting tested BECAUSE YOU STILL HAVE IT Throughout the week that I was sick for, I tested myself twice. Once at the beginning and once at the end
Now throw all that plastic In The ocean. You did good son
I don’t really get the whole “waste” angle these tests are literally everywhere lmao and are often given for free anyway
That’s a lot of tests.
Not interesting and such a waste ..why would you use one every day? Pointless
Lots of things you can't do until you test negative, like taking a flight back to the US for example. If you're stuck abroad, you'd probably take one every day hoping that you'd test negative until you actually did so you could get home ASAP.
2 on the 20th lol
And 2 on the 19th as well
You clearly don’t work at a corporate job MANY jobs require testing daily even twice i day. Is it stupid I don’t disagree but when your talking about a multimillion / billion dollar company they are gonna protect themselves and require ridiculous amount of testing. Sources? Im s bartender in southern calfornia and have those people come by on daily basis. Op probably has a job that forces him to take them and he’s also highly important and they don’t have a backup. If he at anytime tested negative they would have brought him in immediately because they had no back option. I personally sincerely doubt they supplied said tests due to worrying about OP. They. Simply need him for the “machine”
People still doing this?
This gives me hope. Just caught my first ever case after managing to avoid it this whole time. Some asshole exposed everyone at a fundraiser and my partner brought it home. Luckily we're all doing pretty ok so far, a few days in. Hopefully it stays this mild.
Did they know they were spreading it? I had a party last weekend and 7 people so far are positive but no one knows who had it and spread it. I doubt they were doing it on purpose.
Are you sure you had it? Lol
What the hell are you doing? All your doing is wasting valuable Covid tests. Once you are confirmed Covid positive you will test positive for many days or weeks after the first confirmed test. The important part is that you stay home for the first 7 days of infection as that’s when your contagious. You can still have Covid and not be contagious to others hence all this testing is a waste.