I was listening to WOUB News on the radio this morning. They reported that multiple athletes had tested positive for Covid-19 (I believe they said 8) and had been sent home to quarantine. All conditioning/workout type activities involving student athletes were suspended for the present time. They did not specify which team or teams were involved but the football guys that I normally see in Peden working out in the early mornings were no where to be seen today. There was nothing that I could find on WOUB's website to confirm their report or to provide more information when I looked later this morning.

So the tests were conducted in Athens, but before workouts began? This doesn't read that clearly to me.

The verbiage is very confusing. Did they come to Athens, quarantine for 7 days, get tested, clear testing, start workouts then get it. Or did they come to town, quarantine for 7 days, get tested, and test positive. The official OU release states neither of those things.

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Given that, it leaves a lot of questions about timelines and the plan here. It's odd to have a seven day quarantine pre-date the test. Why not test and quarantine while results are pending? I'm not clear what that accomplishes, particularly if the test post-quarantine has to be sent to a lab for results.

Right, but if you have to wait 5-7 days for the results after the quarantine, what are folks doing in the meantime? More quarantine? Or going about their business?

It may help that some Covid tests may be made in Athens. Quidel Corporation, which has research and manufacturing in Athens, makes a wide variety of rapid tests, including tests for both active infections (EUA approved March 17) and Covid antibodies (EUA approved May 8)

...The number one quoted me -- and no idea how accurate it is -- is that rapid tests only identify 1 out of 5 active Covid cases. Basically, they can identify a 'high density' of the virus, so if folks are very sick, they work. Otherwise, they're very unreliable. The workflow our legal counsel suggested were we to implement rapid testing is to conduct the rapid test and to only trust positive results they return. For negative tests, we were instructed to have them sent to Labcorp for a second diagnosis that would take 5-7 days. [/QUOTE]
I can't find any specific results for the Quidel test, just that it has a high degree of specificity, but lower sensitivity than PCR tests:
https://www.bioworld.com/articles/435020-fda-applies-eua-...
Thus, you can trust the positive results, but a negative result is less meaningful, and you might want a lab PCR test done as well, pretty much as you suggested.

Here's a different rapid test that does quote specifics:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fda-approved-veritor-corona...
[quote=daily beast]As it turns out, the Veritor machine with a coronavirus assay accurately detects the virus only 84 percent of the time, BD found after a trial involving 226 patients in 21 locations. Laboratory molecular tests, by contrast, are nearly 100-percent sensitive but can take days to complete.

I just realized that no one in this thread, myself included, said anything expressing concern for the health of the eight athletes who tested positive. That's how numbing the daily record-setting numbers have made the situation. I hope they are all okay. Without naming names, has anyone heard how any of those eight are fairing?