Pediatric Emergency Care and Medicine: Open Access

COVID-19 Bogus Negative Test Outcomes Whenever Utilized too Soon

In another examination, Johns Hopkins specialists found that testing individuals for SARS-CoV-2 - the infection that causes COVID-19 - too soon over the span of contamination is probably going to bring about a bogus negative test, despite the fact that they may in the long run test positive for the infection. "An antagonistic test, regardless of whether an individual has indications, doesn't ensure that they aren't contaminated by the infection," says Lauren Kucirka, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., obstetrics and gynecology occupant at Johns Hopkins Medication. "How we react to, and decipher, a negative test is significant on the grounds that we place others in danger when we accept the test is great. In any case, those contaminated with the infection are as yet ready to conceivably spread the infection."

Author(s):

Uttam Sowmya

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