COVID and protesting

Keeping in mind that COVID-19 has a 2 to 14-day incubation period, protesters of the brutal killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis one week ago, Minnesota state health officials are encouraging anyone attending and participating in protests in recent days to get a COVID test.

However, if you attend a protest and have close contact with numerous people and then get a test the next day, it's very likely you won't get a "positive" result, due to the above-mentioned incubation period for COVID-19.

Generally, symptoms usually present themselves in COVID infections in the 5 to 11-day period. Getting a COVID test too early raises the odds considerably that you will receive a false negative test result.

Also, it's extremely interesting that Wisconsin has done more COVID tests (272,138 compared to 255,592), has far fewer COVID cases and has around half of the COVID deaths that Minnesota has suffered. Both states have about the same for overall population.