If you have symptoms, stay home. Then test two days later.

“If a person with #COVID19 tests immediately with a rapid test when symptoms emerge, they receive a false negative as much as 92% of the time. Waiting two days after symptoms brings that rate down to 70%… Our symptoms are happening sooner, but it takes longer to reach enough virus in your body for it to be detectable.”

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-covid-days.html

Think you might have COVID? Wait two days to test

Peek in medicine cabinets across the U.S. and you'll find stacks of leftover COVID tests.

^{Lisa Marshall (Medical Xpress)}