How to perform a home antigen test (Ministry of Health)
Many people who do home corona tests are confused by the results when the second line, which should indicate disease, is very faded, almost invisible - but still there.
Does this mean the test is positive?
negative?
And why is there no unequivocal result?
Well, as any woman who has ever taken a home pregnancy test knows - a nest is a line, no matter how bright it is, so it means you are positive for Corona.
But we also have good news.
Experts say equivocal results on home antigen tests may be more common now—but not because the tests are ineffective, but rather because our immune systems are more efficient.
"When a rapid test is clearly positive, with a dark line that appears almost immediately, that means there was an 'immune system failure,'" Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist and chief science officer at the home testing company eMed, explained to Time. He added that a positive nest stands out The bone says that your body is "letting the virus get out of control."
A line is a line.
Home antigen test (Photo: Reuven Castro)
However, at this stage of the epidemic, when most people have been vaccinated multiple times and have been infected at least once, the immune system improves in response to the virus before it reaches this point.
That is, exposure to the virus may cause a shorter and easier illness, and therefore the result of the test is also less clear.
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"Your body has an advantage over the virus and not the other way around," added Shane Crotty, who studies immunity to infectious diseases at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology in California, "It no longer takes you seven to 10 days to recover from the virus."
He explained that as our immune system gets better at fighting off the virus through vaccinations and previous infections, more people will get milder positives (a less distinct line on the antigen test), which may appear shortly after negative tests because the body quickly clears the virus.
"People may also experience symptoms earlier after exposure than before the epidemic," Crotty added. "Symptoms are a sign that your immune system is fighting back—when the immune system knows what to do and responds immediately, the disease often ends quickly."
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Dr. Paul Drain, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington who has studied rapid tests, said that "a faint positive line can occur if it's too early in the test, before someone has peaked with their infectious viral load, or it happens at the end of their infection." Either way , as mentioned - a line is a line, even if it is bright. And in any case, if you have corona-like symptoms, the safest thing is to stay at home and stay away from others, even if the tests come back negative. "And if you test positive, no matter how weak the line is, you must Acting like you have corona," says Drain, "Positive is positive," he says.
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