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Unless you had a second test, it's also highly likely that you had a false positive test, especially since the incidence of COVID in the population is still not that high

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem

Read the section on drug testing to see what I mean. The probability of false positives when doing mass testing of mostly healthy individuals is much higher than you would intuit, so it's very possible that you never had the pathogen at all

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Yes. If I recall correctly the midseason positivity rates of flu tests is something like 40 percent, which suggests doctors are performing a legitimate differential diagnosis before prescribing flu tests. At no point ever have positivity rates been remotely close to this with coronavirus, even though it was far more prevalent.

The result of any individual test performed on a healthy asymptomatic person as part of a nondiscriminating mass screening regime is pure noise.

I meant I had zero symptoms from the vaccine, not covid itself.

I never had covid as far as I know.

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