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Old 01-25-2021, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by asianthree View Post
Just a thought, Why would you test unless symptoms were involved. Today’s negative could be tomorrow’s positive. If you are asymptomatic, testing is a crap shoot. After all healthcare workers were rarely tested, and they didn’t have to guess if they were exposed. Just went to work everyday glad when shift was over, then repeat.
Testing is used in some instances as a risk reduction method as requested prior to travel.

But as you say, not perfect. But likely to catch someone infected at the time of test.