When should you take a Covid rapid test? Experts suggest waiting for symptoms or next gathering.

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When should you take a Covid rapid test? Experts suggest waiting for symptoms or next gathering.
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The best time to take a Covid-19 rapid test is right before you see vulnerable people or a large group, disease experts said.

Scenario 2: You've been exposed, but don't have symptoms

"If you know for certain you've had an exposure, it doesn't really pay for you to take a test earlier than 48 hours after that known exposure," Andy Pekosz, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Insider."Ideally, 72 hours is a nice window of time where that usually gives a virus like Omicron enough time to replicate."When your COVID-19 test is positive.

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