I have been exposed to covid 19

good luck

Good luck dude. My prayers are with you.

Once again thank everyone for the comments

Don't take the rapid test. Take a full on test. I'd recommend you do it twice just to be sure you definitely do have it, what with it coming out that a lot of the PCR tests last year were amplified to produce more false positives than what should've been normal.

I might take both as testing is free in my state

Either way, do it twice. Because if a test is reliable, one should be able to get the same results if the procedure is repeated.

Basic scientific method, I know, but if I had to get a COVID test, that's what I'd do.

I'm planning to do it in a few days

I do hope you both proceed in that. love to both of you. And the vaccine

Most people (Better than 99%) are just fine, but I know 1 person who had it, who's lungs are swiss cheese now (like... he's seriously messed up, probably for life), and a few who have died from it. If you're one of the people that stays asymptomatic, you should still feel blessed. Either way, take care. And if the test comes back positive, don't take that as a free pass on the vaccine. Take it from the person above who's had it 3 times... survival doesn't seem to do a good job of making you immune, but this mRNA business seems to work well.

I've had both Moderna doses, and my wife has just had her first (second due as early as the 15th). It's a tiered rollout and I was near the top of the list after medical staff, because I deploy on a ship. Would have gotten my wife taken care of a lot sooner, had it been possible...

Even if you are asymptomatic then you can still have side effects

asymptomatic mean no symptoms but you still can pass the virus to someone else if you tested positive, that why I told you go get tested ASAP, and get isolated from anyone who tested positive.

I unfortunately can't get tested until May 3rd

pretty sure some place has walk in, that what I did when I took my test, I did two tests , PCR and rapid test.

I was actually tested about 12 days ago and got it negative but since I was exposed yesterday I need to be retested

You live with other?

I got both shots, and the card to prove it. the shot was fine. but the hurt lasted 3 days.

Not in the past 12 days as the people who live with me had been away for some time

do you have any symptoms? I always have to fill out a little form when I go to a doctor's appointment, and it lists the symptoms. when I had a sore throat at one of my appointments, they put me in a special room, and the doctor came in wearing a special suit.

But the person possibly expose the virus to you were they sick, did they have symptoms, were they tested?

Good point Hayato213