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You are correct.
Any chance you could elaborate on this a bit? A bunch of my non medic friends have decided that lateral flow tests are worthless so don't bother with them any more however when i look for research on their effectiveness all I can find is info saying that although they are flawed, false positives are rare but they are better than nothing.
Any chance you could spell out why they are worthless and that we shouldn't bother with them in laymans terms?
My Mum is double vaccinated but super vulnerable to Covid,. I'm isolating for a week before I see her and taking a few LFTs during that week...should I not bother?
Stonehedge
We did a lateral flow at 9am which came back negative. Her 'cold' got worse. Booked a PCR at 2pm which was positive. I administered both.
My takeaway is that the lateral flow are almost worthless.