😷 Here's the latest thinking on testing, isolation and treatment if you test positive for COVID at this stage of the pandemic.
Interview highlightsThe rapid antigen tests do work to pick up omicron. This pattern that you see is really similar across all the variants, which is that there is usually a day or two delay between when you might test positive on a PCR versus when you might test positive on one of these at-home rapid antigen tests. But they do work to pick up an infection.I organize my tests in my drawer actually by expiration date, so I'm using the oldest ones first. So that's just a small tip there.
Right now, we have a pretty short supply of treatment. And so we're really trying to target that supply to people in whom it would really have the most benefit. People who are young, healthy, who don't have significant symptoms are probably not going to end up in the hospital regardless. And so that's not the best use of that short supply that we currently have.What we're seeing is that people very often test positive for longer than five days.
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