If your RAT result is negative but your symptoms continue or worsen, continue to stay at home and take a further test 48 hours later. A health professional can advise you on the right test to take in your situation.Īnyone with COVID-19 symptoms should stay at home and get tested. If someone at higher risk of severe COVID-19 illness is a household contact, and has a negative RAT for COVID-19, a more sensitive PCR test may be needed. RAT results are available quickly – usually in 20 minutes or less. Rapid antigen tests (RATs) are currently Aotearoa New Zealand’s primary testing tool for COVID-19. Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplication (LAMP) tests.If you received a preliminary negative antigen ‘rapid’ test but are awaiting a PCR result, you should continue to isolate until you receive your PCR results.
If your symptoms worsen, please contact your doctor and seek another test call 911 if you experience a medical emergency. If you are currently experiencing symptoms but received a negative test result, please continue to isolate until your symptoms resolve and you are 10 days past symptom onset. If at any point you begin experiencing symptoms, please isolate and seek another test. If you are not experiencing symptoms, you are free to go about your day. If you need assistance please see our Get Help page What do you do if you test negative? Please read more about Isolation and Quarantine, including the most up-to-date requirements and guidelines here. Weekends and holidays can also impact test turnaround times many laboratories don’t run samples on weekends or holidays and shipping times can be impacted. Many PCR testing options require shipping samples to a laboratory, these shipping requirements can lead to delays outside of the provider’s control, such as weather impacts or road closures. Please contact the provider who administered the test in order to receive your results. Pitkin County Public Health can not provide you with your test results.
Antigen/at-home tests are good for serial testing programs (testing multiple times per week) or for testing on day 6 of isolation if you have COVID-19 and are without fever/feeling better to ensure you are no longer contagious.PCR tests are available at local community testing sites or at some schools in the form of CUE testing. If you start feeling ill, have a runny nose, cough, or know that you’ve been exposed, PCR is the way to go to rule out COVID-19. PCR tests are considered the gold standard in diagnostic testing.In order to increase effectiveness, antigen tests should be used on symptomatic individuals and proctored by a healthcare professional. Most ‘At Home’ testing options are antigen tests and they are often used for serial testing programs. This test looks for active infections by testing for certain proteins found in the virus. This means that they will produce more false positives and false negatives than the molecular tests. Antigen Test (Rapid Test): These tests are popular because they provide results quickly, however they are not as specific or sensitive as PCR or other molecular tests.These tests are not used to determine active infection status or how effective a vaccine is. These antibodies are also what vaccines produce.
When your body’s immune system fights off a viral infection, like COVID-19, you produce antibodies that combat that specific virus. Antibody Test: This test is used, predominantly in medical or research settings, to determine if an individual has previously been infected with COVID-19.There are a few options in the Roaring Fork Valley to receive a ‘rapid’ PCR test, which means those sites that offer it have the ability to run the laboratory analysis on their site. Because these types of tests require laboratory analysis, samples often need to be sent to the lab for processing which is why there is a wait time to receive your results. These tests use laboratory techniques in order to determine if there is any COVID-19 DNA present in the sample. PCR Test (Molecular test): The most sensitive and specific test available.
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