On Wednesday last week, I tested positive on a LF test. I do one of these each week as standard before going to a group on Thursday morning. I had none of the classic symptoms, but did have a bit of a sore throat and a runny nose. I ordered a PCR which arrived Thursday, and was sent straight back.
By Friday, I had a cough and a temperature, so I was convinced my PCR would be positive. My partner, who I’d spent the entire previous weekend with, was also ill with a cough and temperature, plus he lost his sense of smell, so he tested too. I also did a PCR on 15yo ds, as he’s been a close contact of 3 positive cases at school, and seemed the most likely source of infection, although he had no symptoms and his LF was negative.
Test results are back - ds negative, me negative and dp is positive, but his daughter, who he lives with, is negative.
Just really confused about how I’ve a) managed to get a negative PCR after a positive LF and with all the same symptoms as he has, and b) not caught it off him. It seems a bit of a coincidence if I’ve contracted another random bug at exactly the same time he’s contracted Covid, and exhibiting the same symptoms, and I’m dubious whether I believe the test results!
Is it more likely that I got a false positive on the LF or a false negative on the PCR, does anyone know? I just don’t want to be sharing the germs if I am actually infected, as I give a lift to an elderly lady on a Thursday and I’d never forgive myself if I made her ill.