Maybe so, but it sounds like they didn’t do that.
From the article I linked in my previous post:
***FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — When Martin Salia’s Ebola test came back negative, his friends and colleagues threw their arms around him. They shook his hand. They patted him on the back. They removed their protective gear and cried.
But when his symptoms remained nearly a week later, Salia took another test, on Nov. 10. This one came back positive, sending the Sierra Leonean doctor with ties to Maryland on a desperate, belated quest for treatment and forcing the colleagues who had embraced him into quarantine.***
I’ve tried to find out how many tests he was actually given, but there are only two mentioned. It could be sloppy journalism that doesn’t want to ask the question though. It’s bad enough that he had one false negative. It would be worse to find out that he had more than that. If the WHO protocol was followed, that could mean there was another false negative, which simply isn’t being reported. That wouldn’t surprise me. All I’ve been able to find out is that his first negative test was done on Nov. 6, and that the positive was done on Nov. 10. This despite his having many symptoms.