I had Omicron but to claim California's Supplemental Sick days, I cannot test positive any more
Mar 14
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I think I had Omicron, because I had flu symptoms for close to 2 weeks (a flu should not last that long).
But right now, in order to claim California's Supplement Sick Leave's second 5 days, I need to show that I test positive. ( https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/COVID19resources/2022-COVID-19-SPSL-Poster.pdf ). But I cannot test positive any more using the government's free iHealth antigen test kit because if has been two weeks.
I am quite sure I had Omicron. What can I do to claim the second 5 days?
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OP, you work at Apple, why are you trying to claim supplemental sick leave that is intended for lower income workers?
They said, yes PCR tests can sometimes detect positive within 90 days a person had the covid, but it is only small percentage. More often than not, it cannot show a positive. I read a webpage saying out of 230 cases that was actual covid in the past 90 days, only about 30 showed positive. So it CAN. But will it -- it is likely that it will not.
Also the person in charge of giving out the PCR tests, she told me she knew a guy who had Covid, and the he recovered, and then he took the antigen test and it showed him as positive. And then just to confirm he also took the PCR test, but to his surprise, the PCR test didn't show him as positive. So she said the tests are not perfect and it might be for reference only.
This has to be a troll.
I cannot use the government's Supplement Sick Days first and leave the Apple one for later? Or I cannot have used up the Apple one for a person I have to care for previously, and now I have to use the government one? I have to subject to the Salesforce supreme judge?