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Jan 14, 2022 49 secs
Don't get tested.".

That's the premise of some viral TikTok videos that mock COVID-19 testing in which users boast about not getting tested despite showing symptoms – a message doctors are calling "extremely dangerous" and "selfish.".

can't test positive if you don't get tested." Similar videos have garnered hundreds of thousands of likes as well as copycat videos and affirming comments. .

That if they don't go for a test, then they don't have COVID, and it doesn't work like that," he says, adding the message is "extremely dangerous." "This is exactly what will bring us so many steps backwards in the fight against COVID.

Ascher urges anyone who is experiencing cold or flu-like symptoms to get tested for COVID-19.

"Any cold or flu-like symptom, that's COVID until the test proves otherwise," Ascher says

"It's so so important that because we have such a plethora and such an access to testing to get tested when there are symptoms

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