{"id":5652,"date":"2024-01-02T19:21:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T01:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2024-01-02T19:21:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T01:21:23","slug":"testing-negative-but-still-feeling-sick-doctors-explain-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/01\/02\/testing-negative-but-still-feeling-sick-doctors-explain-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing negative but still feeling sick? Doctors explain why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/4370334-testing-negative-but-still-feeling-sick-doctors-explain-why\/\">The Hill<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ve got the sore throat, runny nose and cough (or any of the other&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/4367974-5-things-to-know-about-the-new-covid-variant-of-interest-jn-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">common COVID-19 symptoms<\/a>&nbsp;right now), but when you swab your nose and take a test, it comes out negative. Is there a chance you still have COVID-19? Could it be something else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer \u2013\u00a0to both questions \u2013 is yes. \u201cIf you are feeling symptomatic and you test negative for COVID-19, usually the most likely reason is you\u2019re infected with something else besides COVID-19,\u201d said Dr. Andrew Pekosz, a virologist and professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/3774684-feeling-sick-but-testing-negative-doctors-explain-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">during a media briefing<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, two other respiratory viruses, influenza and RSV,&nbsp;are starting to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/4337481-11-states-have-high-or-very-high-respiratory-illness-map-shows-where-sickness-is-spreading\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">circulate at high levels&nbsp;in many states<\/a>, and all three illnesses have&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/3763787-covid-rsv-or-flu-how-to-tell-the-symptoms-apart\/\" target=\"_blank\">overlapping symptoms<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Pekosz went on to say that a negative test doesn\u2019t really change much as far as next steps go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re feeling sick, there really should be no difference whether you\u2019re testing positive for COVID-19, flu or RSV,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you\u2019re feeling sick, stay home, take care of yourself. If you\u2019re in a high-risk group, seek medical attention so you can get some advice as to what to do. There are a lot of viruses out there that are causing similar spectrums of diseases. So if you\u2019re feeling sick, you are sick.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/4370334-testing-negative-but-still-feeling-sick-doctors-explain-why\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill You\u2019ve got the sore throat, runny nose and cough (or any of the other&nbsp;common COVID-19 symptoms&nbsp;right now), but when you swab your nose and take a test, it comes out negative. Is there a chance you still have COVID-19? Could it be something else? The answer \u2013\u00a0to both questions \u2013 is yes. \u201cIf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5653,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions\/5653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}