> A week later, the positive test result came back
Which country do you live in that it takes a week for the PCR test to come back? It's around 24 hours here and I thought that was the case in all developed countries.
I'm in the US. The test was taken on a Sunday evening at about 7:30PM, and the results were delivered via text message the morning of the following Friday.
My guess is there's a lot of variability in how long it takes to get results. I know folks who've taken the same test and they got results back within 48 hours.
There's a lot of variability, and it depends on how far you are from the lab the particular test center uses, how quickly the test center sends your sample to the lab, and how busy the lab is.
I've had two tests that came back in around 48 hours and one that only took 8 hours (US, SF bay area). 4.5 days seems pretty excessive (and frankly pretty useless) though!
Which country do you live in that it takes a week for the PCR test to come back? It's around 24 hours here and I thought that was the case in all developed countries.
I hope you recover quickly!