BreandyDownUnder t1_is19f8m wrote
Reply to comment by Pechumes in Feeling “schadenfreude” about Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis may have impacted people’s views on the election by chrisdh79
I suspect it was simply a false positive test. If you get covid, your body begins to produce antibodies. Especially if you're handling covid well. It takes at least a week for those antibodies to drop off after you've fought off the virus. You'll continue to test positive during that time. Last December, my accountant called to tell us that he'd tested positive for covid. We got tested and found we were positive too. We had no symptoms because we were both vaxed and boosted. Still, we self quarantined for a little over a week until we were testing negative for a couple of days. This experience made think back on the Trump episode.
Pechumes t1_is1adkt wrote
You kinda just proved my point, no? He tested positive, he had the virus.
BreandyDownUnder t1_iscaz1o wrote
We tested positive every day for a little over a week before testing negative. If we had tested negative the day after testing positive, it would have been considered a false positive. It doesn't matter what medications are administered, the antibodies will hang around in your system for a number of days. If there are no antibodies, there was no infection.
Pechumes t1_iscbo17 wrote
It wasn’t the next day. He tested positive, went to Walter Reed on October 2nd, returned to the WH on October 5th. On the 7th, his doctor said he’d been symptom free for 24 hours. On the 12th, his doctor said he’d tested negative 2 consecutive days in a row. https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/10/12/trump-negative-covid-not-infectious-429068
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