With the abundance of viruses making people sneeze, cough, and ache right now, testing will remain a critical tool to keep yourself and others safe.
— that could strain health systems or lead to medication shortages.
If neither of the above conditions apply to you, the decision to test ahead of a gathering comes down to several factors as well as the comfort level of those around you, according to experts. In any case, there's really no downside to taking a COVID-19 test out of precaution before going to an event or being around high-risk people, the experts noted.“If you want to be absolutely sure, the more sensitive test is the PCR test,” Dr. Thomas Murray, associate medical director for infection prevention at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital in Connecticut, told TODAY.
The next best choice are rapid at-home antigen tests, said Murray, and the closer to the time of the gathering you take it the better — for example, the morning before Thanksgiving dinner. “There is some evidence that if you do more than one test in the two days leading up, and those are both negative, then that’s better than a single test,” Murray added., and there are still ways to get them for free or low-cost if you aren’t covered.
In any case, a negative COVID-19 test does not 100% guarantee that you are not infected with the virus and you won’t transmit it to others, said Weisenberg. But it does offer a snapshot of your SARS-CoV-2 status in that moment, the experts noted, which is why testing is important to help prevent transmission.
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