As coronavirus case counts surge across the country social media users claim that the recent increase in cases is the result of common colds producing positive test results. A recent study showed that 16 of patients with covid 19 continued to test positive for sars cov 2 rna up to 24 days after resolution of symptoms and discharge from the hospital. The number of covid 19 patients in florida hospitals continued to decline monday and the percentage of coronavirus tests coming back positive was in the single digits for the second day in a row.
Increased testing in virus hotspots helping to find more cases but rise comes amid overall increase in virus prevalence. Test and trace records 17 jump in positive test results. Since it s positive to get a false negative or even a false positive result.
There are different methods for testing for the novel coronavirus covid 19 but some are more accurate than others. If you had a test because you had symptoms keep self isolating for at least 10 days from when your symptoms started. If your test is positive you must self isolate.
A positive result means you had coronavirus when the test was done.
