If you’ve had a viral infection once you will have anti-bodies for that strain of virus for the rest of your life and test positive for the rest of your life.
This is the sequence.
Positive. Treated. Recovered. NEGATIVE.
Then get it again. Or Relapse. Or whatever word you want to use.
SO I am asking you..when they get the NEGATIVE test..does that mean they are recovered and not shedding the virus..or does that mean they still could have it and shedding the virus.
Your antibody answer doesn’t answer that question because after having the virus people are testing NEGATIVE when “cured”
And then they get SICK with SYMPTOMS again. and test positive.
So in between there are NEGATIVE tests when they have no symptoms
I posit the theory that the tests are not reliable and the Negative doesn’t really mean Negative.
btw, just to clarify there is more than one test. One test shows whether you currently have it. There is another test that shows whether you had it.