I haven’t spent much time looking into it, but I recall coming across this:
In the report on the findings published May 13 in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, the researchers found that the probability of a false negative result decreases from 100% on Day 1 of being infected to 67% on Day 4. The false negative rate decreased to 20% on Day 8 (three days after a person begins experiencing symptoms). They also found that on the day a person started experiencing actual symptoms of illness, the average false negative rate was 38%. In addition, the false negative rate began to increase again from 21% on Day 9 to 66% on Day 21.
If someone got COVID how long do they need to wait to get tested so that the test correctly identifies them as positive?
I haven’t spent much time looking into it, but I recall coming across this: