Above is also some information from the Seattle area. A pilot program for home testing of people that think they have symptoms of Covid-19.
I hope that it is a reliable test. Their initial results from about 4,000 people found that only 1.6% of them tested positive for CV-19. That is for people with symptoms!
coming back from the vet today, heard on the talk radio that my county is opening up drive-up testing to anybody who wants it, appointment still needed. Must not have gotten a whole lot of positives.
But you know, I’m not sure if I want to get tested and risk getting infected at a drive-up site.
I’ve been sequestered since Moses was in diapers it seems, so what’s the purpose for me?
Maybe we should have a ‘not infected ‘column for those whose households greater than (1) haven’t had sickness in 60 days. And all that takes is a phonecall. That should narrow down the field substantially. And cost a whole lot less than trying to test everyone.
That implies the test is faulty, insensitive or the detectable antibodies are falling to undetectable levels fairly quickly.