Which type of COVID-19 test should you take? When should you take it before a gathering? We spoke to experts about how and when to use COVID-19 tests to stay safe.
include a cough, congestion, fatigue, aches, sore throat, fever, shortness of breath and loss of taste or smell, TODAY previously reported.
“I would first look at what your recent risk is ... because the more you've been at risk, the more likely you're going to have a positive test," Dr. Scott Weisenberg, infectious disease specialist at NYU Langone Health, told TODAY.com. If you’ve been engaging in higher risk activities, like spending time in crowded indoor areas without a mask or hanging around sick people, that will increase your chances of having any respiratory virus, Weisenberg noted.
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.
Additionally, people should check with their insurance provider about the cost of PCR testing beforehand. “In many places, symptomatic testing remains covered but asymptomatic screening may not be covered,” said Murray.
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