So a friend of mine has some symptoms that could be anything. He is one of us, maybe a little more skeptical, but definitely won't take the jab and knows evil people are running things. Anyway, he isn't feeling well, no fever, but has headache, the shits and major fatigue. He knows it is likely a stomach bug, but still has concerns about it being covid. My brother and I gave him info to contact frontline doctors. If they think it's covid I will give him my HCQ while he waits for his order to arrive.
My question is, Dr. Zelenko says take treatment on suspicion, but get tested. We all know the PCR test is bullshit. I haven't seen debate about the antigen test. Is that worth getting for him? Is it even available?
What sucks the most is we know it is people getting tested that causes the cases to spike. My brother and I have said we will never get tested. But, I don't want to push our friend to not get tested and be wrong.
He has been taking Zelenko's supplement prophlyaxis for 2 weeks.
Any advice, what would you do? Hopefully frontline doctors calls him tomorrow, or he feels great by morning, he has been feeling these symptoms for a few days, he did spend Saturday on a boat drinking in the hot sun, maybe that was enough to do this. I don't know. Any thoughts?
Any clinical test will have well-defined sensitivity and specificity. These outline the likelihood of getting the correct result vs getting a false positive or a false negative. It depends on a lot of factors for each individual test. A warning like this is common to pretty much any test for anything out there.
I’m say this as someone who is a firm believer that many of the PCR tests out there were complete bullshit- they had a very high false positive rate due to being over-cycled.