If you've been exposed to COVID-19, here's when you should take your at-home test.
CLEVELAND — These days, snagging an at-home COVID-19 test feels like a feat, but it could be all for naught if you test too soon after a known COVID-19 exposure.
She tested negative on Christmas Eve, but by Monday she was bedridden with all the typical COVID-19 symptoms: fever, body aches, chest pain, cough and more. “It [at-home testing] is not as sensitive as the molecular PCR test, that's considered like the gold standard because it is extremely sensitive to SARS-CoV-2," she said."The antigen test, however, is not as sensitive, so it has a little more wiggle room and it has a little more where you could get a wrong result.”
Romona Brazile with the Cuyahoga County Board of Health said the problem with at-home tests is that people are testing too soon.
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