My COVID-19 test result was POSITIVE. While there is a chance that this is a false positive result, it is far more likely that I either have the virus or had it and didn’t know it. I can’t tell which because I have NO SYMPTOMS. That could be due to me being one of the lucky ones who is not made sick by the virus. Or it could be that I was actually infected previously – perhaps as much as 3 months ago – and had minor symptoms that were never bad enough for me to think I had a potentially deadly disease. The test can show positive due to antibodies from an earlier infection.
But at some point – either now or as some point in the past – I was probably infectious and didn’t know it. I am not aware of anyone who I may have infected with COVID-19, but the possibility that I made someone sick without knowing it bothers me a lot.
The ability of this virus to be passed by asymptomatic carriers is one of the characteristics that makes it so insidious. I took the test on a whim and not because I thought I was infected. I have to wonder how many other people like me are out there and haven’t been tested.
I spoke to my doctor today and he agreed that I should isolate myself for at least another week, then take another test. If that test is negative then the first one was probably a false positive. If it is positive then I was definitely infected, but it won’t shed any light on when I was infected.
A perfectly crappy end to a perfectly crappy year.