Tested Positive On Lateral Flow

Tested Positive On Lateral Flow. If you did a rapid lateral flow test at home or at a test site and the result was positive. A faint positive lateral flow test result Credit.

2030pm that night had a text message to say covid result is positive didnt state lateral flow. PCR is useful for confirming a suspected case of. Received a text message stating lateral flow test positive.

This is because the specificity of LFTs their ability to accurately diagnose uninfected individuals is higher and therefore false positives are highly unlikely.

However in some cases people have found their lateral flow tests have remained positive even on day 10 of their isolation period. Furthermore lateral flow testing is believed to have correctly provided positive results to just 32 of students at the University of Birmingham. Due to these obvious accuracy flaws lateral flow tests may be useful but are not a dependable way to. This stands out because weve been led to believe that PCR tests are the gold standard and LFTs are crude mass-testing devices that PCRs should pick up cases.