DH and I seem to have Covid. I say seem, as we have both had negative PCR tests. We both have classic symptoms though (feel lousy, aches/pain, weak, loss of taste and smell and persistent cough). A look at the relevant scientific literature, shows there is at least a 30% false negative rate in real life, ad opposed to controlled laboratory conditions. In the circumstances, we’re behaving as if we have it (isolating etc). We haven’t got much energy to do anything else anyway.
We don’t seem to be ‘seriously’ unwell, so it is what it is, but a couple of weeks ago, I booked a holiday in Barbados, leaving 28 October. I have read that if a person has Covid, they can test positive for up to 90 days after (hence the government don’t provide repeat testing in that timescale, even for new symptoms). Again, the literature says you can test positive for weeks and even months after. I do realise that looking forward to our holiday is a first world thing, but I so am and wonder if any MNs can offer hope by having had Covid, but still had a negative pre-travel PCR within weeks!