> because none of the medical professionals indicated to me that the rapid tests were that unreliable when it comes to producing false negatives.
You're being very emphatic about this, but all you've described is that the rapid test failed in a single case (you). We expect a lot more failure than that from the slow test! Where is the idea coming from that you experienced egregious unreliability?
Well, he did take two rapid tests, which both produced false negatives.
What this tells us about false negatives depends on details he didn't mention, about how correlated the two tests were. Obviously, it was the same person each time - but was it the same day? Same test brand? Same clinic? Same tester?
You're being very emphatic about this, but all you've described is that the rapid test failed in a single case (you). We expect a lot more failure than that from the slow test! Where is the idea coming from that you experienced egregious unreliability?