Coronacheck covid-19 igg/igm rapid test cassette use for covid-19 under emergency use authorization (eua): monday (b)(6) 2021 pm: we receive an email from my daughter's school that she had an exposure on friday (b)(6) 2021, tuesday (b)(6) 2021 am: she gets a pcr test.We decide to seek out a rapid test since we are in a house with at-risk individuals.Tuesday (b)(6) pm: we are spending the holidays in a remote town with extended family - we were unable to locate any rapid tests other than one local pharmacy just started administering the igg/igm rapid test.I bring my daughter to the pharmacy for the test.The reading was that she had some immunity (igg; she had received 2 doses pfizer in the late spring 2021) and no igm.She had also demonstrated flu-like symptoms for 24+ hrs prior to the test.Weds (b)(6) 2021 am: she received positive pcr result.As a pharmacist myself, my assessment is that she possibly received a false negative since she was within a week of exposure and the antibody test may be accurate only 1-3 weeks after exposure/infection.My concern however, is that she had active symptoms and the pcr test earlier in the day was positive.Anyone that uses this test should be advised to also take a different test to corroborate results.Fda safety report id# (b)(4).
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