But he's also not symptomatic, so how much of this is simply "measuring something we've never measured before" (evidence of viral infection of someone who isn't symptomatic)?
If it was a cold or flu he'd be told "stay in bed until you don't feel like crap anymore, then once you feel better give it a day or two for good measure", and no one would care anything about whether or not the virus is technically still detectable in his system at the end. But since it's WuFlu we do for some reason.
After testing negative Tuesday evening, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning and Friday morning, the President tested positive late Saturday morning by antigen testing.
This is definitely "measuring something we've never measured before".
Viral antigen testing for outpatients was barely done for anything prior to COVID.
When it was, it was done once for diagnostic purposes.
Testing someone daily after symptom resolution with a faulty test to surveil for "rebound" is madness.
Depends, it sounds like Paxlovid has a known issue of “secondary positive” testing.
But he's also not symptomatic, so how much of this is simply "measuring something we've never measured before" (evidence of viral infection of someone who isn't symptomatic)?
If it was a cold or flu he'd be told "stay in bed until you don't feel like crap anymore, then once you feel better give it a day or two for good measure", and no one would care anything about whether or not the virus is technically still detectable in his system at the end. But since it's WuFlu we do for some reason.
This is definitely "measuring something we've never measured before".
Viral antigen testing for outpatients was barely done for anything prior to COVID.
When it was, it was done once for diagnostic purposes.
Testing someone daily after symptom resolution with a faulty test to surveil for "rebound" is madness.