Even if you test negative for coronavirus, assume you have the virus, doctors say.
If you test negative for coronavirus, does that mean you don’t have it? Not necessarily, some doctors say.
Those results seem to match what some health care experts in the United States are seeing, Bloomberg reports. The World Health Organization has declared the COVID-19 virus a global pandemic. In the United States, President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency. “There is just nothing else it could be in New York City in 2020,” Sperling said, according to the publication.For one, the nasal swab used to collect mucus to be tested in the lab can be tricky to perform, even for trained medical personnel, The New York Times reported. It’s invasive and patients often squirm.
But these kinds of tests are better at finding coronavirus than at confirming specimens are coronavirus-free, the Mayo Clinic reports. Why are false negative tests a problem?Gerardo Hernandez, 39, tested negative for coronavirus despite persistent tiredness, coughing and fever, the Los Angeles Times reported. Now the Adelanto city leader in California’s Mojave Desert is in critical condition on a ventilator.
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