THE SAFEST TEST FOR CHRISTMAS: MEET ONLY WITH PARTNERS AND DO QUARANTINE
The need to meet at Christmas parties with family and friends after tough months of pandemic It may lead you to think that getting tested for coronavirus is the best way to go safely to meetingsHowever, experts advise: the safest test is to meet only with partners.
PCR, antigens, serologicals … there are several techniques available to diagnose or know if you have been in contact with the infection, but experts such as the spokesperson for the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (Seimc), María del Mar Tomás, affirm that “there is no technique that is one hundred percent for sure”.
Speaking to Efe, he explains that, in addition, It depends on how, when and at what point in the possible infection the tests are done. “That you take a test will give you a probability, but it depends on who does it, how you do it, the test, when you do it,” says the expert.
Therefore, as a professional, he does not advise testing in order to go “safe” to lunch and dinner Christmas if you have no symptoms.
For starters, he notes, the safest thing is to meet only with partners, and, if it is not possible and the meeting is with other people, all the recommended safety measures must be taken, from hygiene and safety distance, to the use of masks and ventilation or to do it in open spaces.
Thomas adds that the “only” way to go “safe” to family or friends gatherings is to have “minimal social contact” between the previous five and seven days, that is, do a quarantine.
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