Thanksgiving is this week. The best thing you can do for your health, the health of your family, and the health of the community is to test for COVID19 before gathering. By now, everyone is familiar with PCR tests. They are the gold standard and includes driving to a clinic, getting tested, and waiting a few days for results. While PCR tests are incredibly accurate, they are very expensive. They are also not very feasible. Unless you quarantine after a PCR, you’re not in a bubble. You can become infected while waiting for results. Also, they are certainly not useful for day-of decision making. Antigen tests are your best bet this week.
Can you explain why fully vaccinated people shouldn't get tested? That makes no sense to me. You still have a gathering of people from multiple communities that are then going back into their respective areas. Asymptomatic spreaders seem to be an obvious concern here.
The rapid tests appear to be FSA eligible, so if your employer has a flexspend benefit, you're in luck. Of course this is ludicrously regressive (if your marginal tax rate is 25%, you're basically getting a 25% rebate on the test from the IRS).
Any further suggestions for those of us lucky enough to have at-home nucleic-acid amplification tests (NAAT) like Cue? My employer buys us Cue devices and lets us run up to 20 tests a month at their expense, on ourselves or those around us.
My understanding is that they're basically in between a true PCR test and a rapid antigen test for accuracy. But pragmatically, they run in half an hour like an antigen test.
I'm assuming the takeaway is just to treat it like you suggest an antigen test, though the Tuesday morning test is not as critical?
You don't mention the at-home rapid molecular test "Lucira Check-It". Results in 30 minutes. Yes it is very expensive ($75), but supposedly it gives more accurate results than the rapid antigen test? I think it is the same test that pharmacies give when you ask for a "rapid PCR" test? https://checkit.lucirahealth.com/
This is timely. And I'm already going off-label! We've someone we're working with who's younger than the recommended age for the test (Abbott BINAX-Now) who was exposed in school last Monday. I'm serially testing them today and tomorrow, days 6 and 7. If both are negative I've sufficient confidence to assume she is not going to convert to positive. Currently asymptomatic.
There are several reasons to use testing instead of simply quarantine that explaining my cause to jeopardize confidentiality, but I've sufficient confidence that this approach was selected. I am, of course, depending on Abbott's stated statistics to be accurate. It does help to have a background that allows for a critical assessment of their stats.
Can you explain why fully vaccinated people shouldn't get tested? That makes no sense to me. You still have a gathering of people from multiple communities that are then going back into their respective areas. Asymptomatic spreaders seem to be an obvious concern here.
The rapid tests appear to be FSA eligible, so if your employer has a flexspend benefit, you're in luck. Of course this is ludicrously regressive (if your marginal tax rate is 25%, you're basically getting a 25% rebate on the test from the IRS).
BNT162b2 Vaccine: possible codons misreading, errors in protein synthesis and alternative splicing's anomalies
https://www.authorea.com/users/348455/articles/503889-bnt162b2-vaccine-possible-codons-misreading-errors-in-protein-synthesis-and-alternative-splicing-s-anomalies
Please update this for the current upcoming holiday season, now that we have Omicron to contend with. Thank you
Intravenous Injection of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA Vaccine Can Induce Acute Myopericarditis in Mouse Model
Denmark has already changed the recommended injection procedure to include brief withdrawal of syringe plunger to exclude blood aspiration. https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab707/6353927
Any further suggestions for those of us lucky enough to have at-home nucleic-acid amplification tests (NAAT) like Cue? My employer buys us Cue devices and lets us run up to 20 tests a month at their expense, on ourselves or those around us.
My understanding is that they're basically in between a true PCR test and a rapid antigen test for accuracy. But pragmatically, they run in half an hour like an antigen test.
I'm assuming the takeaway is just to treat it like you suggest an antigen test, though the Tuesday morning test is not as critical?
You don't mention the at-home rapid molecular test "Lucira Check-It". Results in 30 minutes. Yes it is very expensive ($75), but supposedly it gives more accurate results than the rapid antigen test? I think it is the same test that pharmacies give when you ask for a "rapid PCR" test? https://checkit.lucirahealth.com/
This is timely. And I'm already going off-label! We've someone we're working with who's younger than the recommended age for the test (Abbott BINAX-Now) who was exposed in school last Monday. I'm serially testing them today and tomorrow, days 6 and 7. If both are negative I've sufficient confidence to assume she is not going to convert to positive. Currently asymptomatic.
There are several reasons to use testing instead of simply quarantine that explaining my cause to jeopardize confidentiality, but I've sufficient confidence that this approach was selected. I am, of course, depending on Abbott's stated statistics to be accurate. It does help to have a background that allows for a critical assessment of their stats.