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Originally Posted by rrtjp
I am a recently retired respiratory therapist. While working in a hospital here in Florida I saw many false positive and false negative tests with patients. These test were performed by trained healthcare professionals in a hospital setting. So I would not put too much faith in these free home test kits. If I thought I was exposed to someone that had COVID or thought I had COVID I’d make an appointment with primary care physician to get tested.
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I took someone who had tested positive on three home tests to the doctor. Fever of 102, throat felt like they were swallowing glass. Their attitude was MUCH different than last year. They did a flu test, Negative, and several strep tests (different variants). These both came back negative. Her (the doctors) advice was to go home, drink fluids, and it will most likely go away in three to five days. No need to spend $135.00 on an in office covid test which will take 3 days for the result to come back. She said we will treat it as covid. She then mentioned there was medicine routine, but she would not recommend it in this case. According to her, they have been using the vertical horizontal test; only give the meds if the patient is horizontal. She described this as close to being hospitalized. If the patient is vertical they advise against it. In this case the person did feel better in two days. Sore throat was gone on day four.
Everything the doctor said came true. I was shocked by how much things have changed. My doctor had me on a list of receiving the IV treatment if "exposed" to covid. I go Thursdays to Florida cancer specialists so asked if I should have my doctor call and add the Covid treatment. My doctor said that that procedure has changed now as well; I will only get the treatment if tested positive myself.