COVID-19 Second Wave | Reasons for False Negative Tests

Описание: Learn about the reasons why an RT-PCR test can give a false negative with Dr Sharad Joshi https://bit.ly/3aFmgdO, Principal Consultant, Pulmonology, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Vaishali.

Transcript:
We’ll talk about a big confusion many people are complaining that they have a fever got test negative in the CT scan doctor is suggesting that the pneumonia is due to a virus or COVID-19. Tests can be negative, but it doesn’t mean that virus isn’t found in the throat and has gone to the lungs because viral shedding is intermittent in nasopharyngeal mucosa or throat and is not always there. Therefore, sometimes some tests can be negative.