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Originally Posted by jfman
Yet it wouldn't be useful for a key worker about to start a shift on a construction site to know? :confused
Chances are your test would come back negative as a "sniffle" is an extremely rare symptom of Coronavirus. You could equally go out seconds later and catch it though.
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My point still stands true. A negative result proves nothing.
A positive result on the other hand is useful. No contradiction at all.
At the point of testing somebody could have the virus on their hands and then touch their face and other surfaces.
Doesn't matter if you have billions of the PCR testing kits, you still need the limited number of machines and their operators to use those kits. The "kits" are not fully self-contained like a pregnancy test. People do not seem to get that.
If the suggestion of fully self-contained usable at home testing kits being available from Amazon or Boots turns out to happen, then still a negative result isn't that useful.