Kent Sepkowitz CNNThere are several plausible reasons why this latest bump is occurring now after months and months of calm.
To sort it out, I decided to perform an at-home rapid antigen test.
One negative test on the first day of symptoms, especially with the rapid antigen test, is not determinative.
The virus that causes Covid-19 infection is a simple scrap of RNA that cannot survive without a living cell to support it.
This won’t be the last alarm, real or false, for me (and others) in the months ahead.
Persons:
Kent Sepkowitz, Covid, —, overconfidence
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, CNN, Kent Sepkowitz CNN, US, Twitter
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New York, United States, XBB