COVID testing at work Forum

[tlsadmin3]

Do you miss working in your office? Would you take the Coronavirus test every day if it meant you could work in your law office? One law firm is setting up a robust COVID-screening protocol, this protocol is to test asymptomatic employees who are returning to the office. Some companies such as Starbucks offer a wellness app, while other organizations provided virtual healthcare to their workforce. What do you think?

[Anonymous User]

Testing does nothing as to safeguarding the incubation period.

[jarofsoup]

Please explain why you are posting this stuff.

[blair.waldorf]

Testing does nothing as to safeguarding the incubation period.

What? I thought the point of the 14-day quarantine was to safeguard against transmission if you are either in the incubation period or asymptomatic and thus don’t know you have it. And thus a negative test (assuming it is accurate) would put you in the clear. No?

[TigerIsBack]

Testing does nothing as to safeguarding the incubation period.

What? I thought the point of the 14-day quarantine was to safeguard against transmission if you are either in the incubation period or asymptomatic and thus don’t know you have it. And thus a negative test (assuming it is accurate) would put you in the clear. No?

My understanding is that if you're still in the incubation period, you can spread it but would still test negative. But I could be wrong...

[nixy]

I don’t think you can have it enough to spread it without testing positive for it, even if you’re asymptomatic. But I do think you can be infected but have a low enough viral load that it won’t show up on a test, but proceed to get worse and test positive a bit later.

But I too could well be wrong. And I don’t know how common that is even if I have it right.

[UnfrozenCaveman]

Testing does nothing as to safeguarding the incubation period.

What? I thought the point of the 14-day quarantine was to safeguard against transmission if you are either in the incubation period or asymptomatic and thus don’t know you have it. And thus a negative test (assuming it is accurate) would put you in the clear. No?

I think the issue would be the false negative rate generally.

[blair.waldorf]

I don’t think you can have it enough to spread it without testing positive for it, even if you’re asymptomatic. But I do think you can be infected but have a low enough viral load that it won’t show up on a test, but proceed to get worse and test positive a bit later.

But I too could well be wrong. And I don’t know how common that is even if I have it right.

This is my understanding from a quick google search.

I didn’t mean to give this silly thread any attention, but I was curious about testing during the incubation period, because I hadn’t heard that testing was ineffective during the incubation period.

[Anonymous User]

Testing does nothing as to safeguarding the incubation period.

What? I thought the point of the 14-day quarantine was to safeguard against transmission if you are either in the incubation period or asymptomatic and thus don’t know you have it. And thus a negative test (assuming it is accurate) would put you in the clear. No?

My understanding is that if you're still in the incubation period, you can spread it but would still test negative. But I could be wrong...

This is correct. That's why all the NFL players are suddenly getting sick even after getting tested every day. They get exposed somewhere and the tests come out negative until the virus has multiplied enough to be detected. But even before the virus can be detected by the test, it can be spread.

[blair.waldorf]

Testing does nothing as to safeguarding the incubation period.

What? I thought the point of the 14-day quarantine was to safeguard against transmission if you are either in the incubation period or asymptomatic and thus don’t know you have it. And thus a negative test (assuming it is accurate) would put you in the clear. No?

My understanding is that if you're still in the incubation period, you can spread it but would still test negative. But I could be wrong...

This is correct. That's why all the NFL players are suddenly getting sick even after getting tested every day. They get exposed somewhere and the tests come out negative until the virus has multiplied enough to be detected. But even before the virus can be detected by the test, it can be spread.

Why is this anon? Lol.

You can definitely test positive while you are in the incubation period, but it seems like false negatives are much more common during the incubation period (as high as 40%).