No point testing before 10 days, Incubation period is 14 days –Dr Ronald E. Georges
Special Advisor to the Ministry of Health, Dr Ronald E. Georges explained the reason behind the decision to wait 10 days before testing during a live interview titled ‘COVID-19: Ask the Experts’ with Government Information Service (GIS) last night, March 29, 2021.
“The reason that that is done is because if you are exposed today, you have a potential incubation period of at least 14 days, so there is no point testing today because you are not going to test positive, so you have to wait to see if anything happens in terms of if you do become positive.”
“At 10 days, we are looking at 90 something per cent of persons who would become positive who would be positive, so that is actually a better time to test. So there were some people who were trying to get tested today, and that is not necessary, it’s not advisable, you are putting yourself at risk potentially, and you are also potentially causing congestion in the system,” he stated.
Mass testing
According to Dr Georges, special arrangements are being made to accommodate the large number of persons that would need to be tested.
The mass testing will be done at the Ebenezer Thomas Primary School in Sea Cows Bay on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
Health authorities have said they are in possession of a roster of persons who would have attended the funeral, to further aid with contact tracing.
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24 Responses to “No point testing before 10 days, Incubation period is 14 days –Dr Ronald E. Georges”
If the incubation period is 14 days and people get allowed to roam after four we have to ask how many people since 2019 have come in contact with the virus already.
After being exposed to some viruses people have a much lower risk of getting seriously by future exposure. If people don’t believe this then it makes no sense to believe in vaccination.
Vaccination is supposed to be about creating natural immunity by introducing a dead or weakened virus to the immune system.
Some of the new COVID vaccines don’t work this way and it’s in my opinion a dishonest to give them the name of a long-standing medication. The people preaching support for it don’t realize it’s different than traditional medicine.
What they were saying at the beginning of the pandemic is not to over run the hospitals while facing a pandemic which is the defined by widespread infections.
Makes sense that if a hospital can only handle 50 people it’s a problem if 500 people require attention at the same time.
What doesn’t make sense is if a person ends up in the hospital with adequate room and staff why does there seem to be no mainstream public guidance for what treatment entails?
Yet when very high status people get infected they get the best treatment which I doubt doctors are allowed to recommend publicly.
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I cannot WAIT to come home again. Quarantine for 4 days is sufficient. There is always a margin of error so it occurred. Lets get back to living. "How did COVID get here We have no monkey in this country. Prayers for the already grieving family, my blessed country the one I love soooooo very much. Continue to try and contain this COVID but as Moses said "Let my People go."