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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp
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This. Apparently at VGH they ended up having quite a few false negative results to some COVID cases.
There were a few patients that were tested numerous times and came back negative for COVID, but the third test those same patients eventually showed up as positive.
This was as a result of recent understanding that the virus can reside further down your throat, or nasal passages. With that newfound information, they are now swabbing much further down the throat/nose.
Kind of scary though, there might have been cases where the person tested negative and was able to be out there in the population. I wonder how many other hospitals throughout the world were making that same mistake in the initial stages?