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Oximetry at home, Rapid lateral flow tests for Covid

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Lateral Floe Tests - How to Catch a Crovit Viral Infection

These lateral floe tests are massively different to the a based pc r technique used by test and trace. The laterapotist picks up live virus, whereas the pc artist picks up your genitic material from the virus. But because you have this narrow opportunity to catch the infection at its peak, the idea is to do regular, rapid tests to increase the chances of hitting that peak. Do we actually know how often you should take these tests too have the best chances of catching some one being positive? I think the theory is it's about three to four days between the tests. But we don't know a hundred %.

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