What a freaking joke! My family got sick BEFORE testing, then they did MANDATORY testing for a few months, and now they are no longer testing anyone where I live (as far as I’ve heard).
Then I’ve got friends who are having kids sent home from school with notes that 3-4 kids in their classes are sick with H1N1...
I don’t trust ANYTHING in the media about this “Chimera Flu”
The rapid test fails 50% of the time, according to the CDC. This, I heard from my pediatrician. And that is why she didn’t bother to test my daughter. She knew my daughter had H1N1, knew my whole family had it, and said the test wasn’t necessary. We were terribly ill.
A week later, I saw the physcian’s assistant at my doctor’s office. He refused to believe I had had the swine flu, because I hadn’t had the test. Idiot. I didn’t need a test to know how sick I had been.
There was an article here on FR that said the rapid test is inaccurate. DVDMom posted it. You can look for it, if you want.