21 hours agoWhy do so many infected people get the negative test for coronarys?
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The negative testing of the coronary does not necessarily mean that you have no Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, and experts say that the high degree of false negative tests means that many cases are not being seized. A recent study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found that the efficiency of [...]
A recent study in Annals of Internal Medicine by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found that the efficiency of RT tests- The PCR, the most common type of coronary tests across the globe, is dramaticly spotted along the course of Covid-19 infection.
In the early days before the symptoms appeared, researchers found, the chances of getting negative results vary from 100 percent on the first day to 67 percent on the fourth day, explains Periscope.
After symptoms begin to emerge, negative results fall from 38 percent on the 5th to 20 percent day of the eighth day, but they rise again every day after it.
That means that patients with Coddy-19 were able to test negative 1/5 during their infection even if they were actually positive.
“Fokus should be in removing positive patients from the list rather than removing patients on the basis of the negative testing.
The study does not conclude why tests have a high degree of error with negative results. /Periscope
