People Are Querying Covid Test Accuracy For The New XBB Subvariant

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People Are Querying Covid Test Accuracy For The New XBB Subvariant
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Experts have theories on why some people may be getting false negatives on Covid tests right now.

, a professor of paediatrics and biomedical engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech and a physician at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

“If we look at the sequence of the different variants that are out there right now, I would predict that the at-home tests, or over-the-counter tests, should be continuing to perform at the high level that they have been in the past,” Hafer says.AzmanL via Getty Images There is such a thing – especially with these newer strains of the virus – as testing too early. There has to be enough virus in your body for at-home tests to work. And with the

“There might actually be less viral stuff in the nose because the immune system is doing its thing,” Lam says.

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