While the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not include positive rapid tests in its total Covid-19 case count, the tests are still important in making individual decisions about behavior upon diagnosis, the CDC director said. , Rochelle Walensky, this Tuesday (11).
“We’ve been using the PCR test – not the rapid test – the lab tests, the molecular tests, to really capture our case count and really get a good picture of where we are in terms of epidemiology, anticipating what would be coming to hospitals. ,” Walensky said at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing.
“Self-tests are a very important and valuable tool for people to empower themselves, for their own health, for not exposing themselves to other people and for getting some information about their own health,” he added.
Walensky said those who feel sick and test positive should talk to a doctor, but those who are asymptomatic can use a quick positive test to find out if they need to isolate themselves and how much contact they should have with others.
I think it’s less about the absolute case count, understanding if you have an asymptomatic infection or a runny nose and your rapid test is positive, but about really empowering you to do the right thing and not pass it on,” she said.
Walensky said other countries, like the UK, are including rapid tests in their case count, “but they too, while capturing more than we’ve tried, also agree that some diagnoses are missing.”
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