I don't think this is how it's work, but sure.And guess what, if you put a suspected covid person in a pile of covid people, even a false positive becomes a true positive.
Endemic doesn't mean it's less lethal (though current covid definitely is compared to earlier strains), it just means it's omnipresent, i.e. it will always exist in some portion of the population and isn't contained. Like the flu or common colds.Huh, im actually shocked we still get Covid. Yeah, its endemic now (That means it’s practically just annoying rather than deadly) but i haven met a single person with it for years.