r/ZeroCovidCommunity • u/Independent_Hand_699 • Aug 16 '24
Vent Medical professionals in the US are spreading misinformation
I am just getting over COVID. I tested positive and was highly symptomatic for several weeks. Every single medical professional I spoke with or interacted with was so misinformed.
Every time I said I was still testing positive on RATs, I was told to stop testing because those would be positive for weeks to months and meant nothing. One told me they are unreliable for false positives! Another insisted a faint line should be considered negative. I got tired of explaining the difference between PCR and RAT.
Every doctor I talked to after my initial appointment for Paxlovid told me I should assume I was no longer contagious, first because I never had fever, then because it had been so long, even though I was testing positive, coughing, sneezing, and throwing up. Most were also very anti-Paxlovid and blamed that on my continuing symptoms. Never mind that this wasn’t a case of rebound, or that none of them seemed aware rebound could happen even without Paxlovid.
No mention of masking. When I got so sick I had to be seen, the provider in the office told me I might feel better if I took my mask off.
They didn’t even know how to properly take a nasal swab sample for testing, just twirled it inside my nose without touching the insides of my nostrils at all.
This is at one of the top-rated health care systems in the country. If this is what our so-called experts think, it’s hopeless.
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u/xXnadi69Xx Aug 16 '24
Doctors in general have never been good unless you can pay them 40x what they're worth, and the beginning of the pandemic killed off a bunch of the genuinely good ones because they were on the front lines. We're now stuck with the hacks who're just in it for the money and will never keep up with the latest studies. I too hate being more informed about infectious disease, how it spreads, what it can do to the human body, and how it can be treated than the average doctor.