Covid testing : where when how and what happens next.
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elbows
Well-Known Member
Where to start with this shit....
My arse is it anything like the loo roll thing. I see those sorts of comments as just being part of the attempts to manage demand by trying to shame people away from getting tested in certain scenarios.
You will have to be patient
This is not so far away from the priorities earlier in the year when protecting the NHS was achieved in part by convincing a proportion of people who should have been patients that they should not be patients and should just sit at home patiently waiting for death instead. Which in my book does rather undermine the purpose of protecting the NHS in the first place.
Protecting the test & trace system by artificially limiting demand sounds like a great way to lose sight of what the test & trace system is supposed to be there to achieve.
My arse is it anything like the loo roll thing. I see those sorts of comments as just being part of the attempts to manage demand by trying to shame people away from getting tested in certain scenarios.
You will have to be patient
This is not so far away from the priorities earlier in the year when protecting the NHS was achieved in part by convincing a proportion of people who should have been patients that they should not be patients and should just sit at home patiently waiting for death instead. Which in my book does rather undermine the purpose of protecting the NHS in the first place.
Protecting the test & trace system by artificially limiting demand sounds like a great way to lose sight of what the test & trace system is supposed to be there to achieve.
Thora
Differently Ethical
Clearly what happened is, everyone went back to restaurants, workplaces and schools as instructed by the government, but as there is little or no social distancing, mask wearing or extra hygiene in those places, infections with all kinds of viruses has gone through the roof.
Cloo
Banana for scale
That's very interesting - good to know what to watch out for in particular. I think knowing who to intervene with and when is going to be so important.
Yes it said on the radio that an old test can mean even a high viral load is less likely to give a positive test (radio 4).
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
Couple of weeks ago I had symptom, housemates had more symptoms
hot online and booked a drive through. Got it for the next day at 1000 and cracked it, result back next day by text.
I would appear the system has gone to shit since then
hot online and booked a drive through. Got it for the next day at 1000 and cracked it, result back next day by text.
I would appear the system has gone to shit since then
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Yeah, same with people I know. Also I think a fair nunber of people are still having that experience, it's the ones that aren't we hear about, and those are likely to be the lower priority non-institutional tests (care homes and hospitals are taking up a large percentage of the capacity).
SheilaNaGig
Break requested
I’ve got a mild sore throat and I’m tired and a have a persistent cough, although it’s slightly wet, not dry. Also been sneezing.
The guidelines and facts are confused and confusing about whether this set of symptoms might be Covid, but I think it would be sensible to get a test.
I’m in Brixton. My nearest drive through test site is Greenwich, which is a bitch to get to in the car. The other options are walk ins, but they’re in Waltham and Newham.
I’m online for the home test now but their criteria for eligibility are so narrow and outdated. So to get a home test I need to lie.
So so so shit.
The guidelines and facts are confused and confusing about whether this set of symptoms might be Covid, but I think it would be sensible to get a test.
I’m in Brixton. My nearest drive through test site is Greenwich, which is a bitch to get to in the car. The other options are walk ins, but they’re in Waltham and Newham.
I’m online for the home test now but their criteria for eligibility are so narrow and outdated. So to get a home test I need to lie.
So so so shit.
SheilaNaGig
Break requested
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
That's right. The advice is that you might want to tell contacts if you have symptoms - it's up to you - but your contacts aren't required to self-isolate or get tested unless and until you get a positive test result, whereupon track & trace is go.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
What do people get told if their test is void? Anything? The truth? That it's negative?
I am officially bricking it again. I allowed myself a lovely couple of weeks of mild optimism, but it's evaporating fast.
Hearing about Thora's situation (be well, Thora and family!) who did not only realise that a test might be a good idea despite initial non-classic covid symptoms but also managed to get a test done - this is how it should be done and should work.
But to think about the hundreds or thousands of families who the government is just in the process of discouraging from seeking tests, and who will at best stay at home for a couple of days, and otherwise pass it on in their nurseries and schools and workplaces all across the land, and for whom no contact tracing/isolating of contacts will spring into action, as discussed above...I fear we are already in deep shit again.
Especially as the government will of course be reluctant to cast the net of cruder measures more widely, such as ...err...school closures
...that would be needed in the absence of functioning test-trace-isolate.
It's got a horrible sense of deja vu about it.
Surely in-person uni can't go ahead now..?
Hearing about Thora's situation (be well, Thora and family!) who did not only realise that a test might be a good idea despite initial non-classic covid symptoms but also managed to get a test done - this is how it should be done and should work.
But to think about the hundreds or thousands of families who the government is just in the process of discouraging from seeking tests, and who will at best stay at home for a couple of days, and otherwise pass it on in their nurseries and schools and workplaces all across the land, and for whom no contact tracing/isolating of contacts will spring into action, as discussed above...I fear we are already in deep shit again.
Especially as the government will of course be reluctant to cast the net of cruder measures more widely, such as ...err...school closures
...that would be needed in the absence of functioning test-trace-isolate.It's got a horrible sense of deja vu about it.
Surely in-person uni can't go ahead now..?
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
Thora and SheilaNaGig wish you better soon x
Thora
Differently Ethical
SheilaNaGig I've been told that home tests are released at 8am and 5pm and centre slots at 10am, and 7 or 8pm. No idea how accurate that is but we did suddenly manage to get a drive through slot at 10am for that afternoon, and I was on the website ready at 8am this morning and managed to get home tests ordered.
SheilaNaGig
Break requested
Thanks, that’s good information. I’ll try that tomorrow.
Agreeing! I really hope things don't go too terribly for you both.
My same hope applies to anyone else worried and/or needing tests
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wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
somerleyton road in brixton pop up test centre is open tuesdays, fridays and probably sundays; usually very quiet and open to people popping in for a test without booking (or at least were recently) they're done and packed up by 4pm
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
it might be an idea to get pop up ones with days/times they are on and location in a list somewhere as I was trying to help a friend get to one today but brixton was too far to walk from central london and my tiny google-powers didn't return any results.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
How do you know where and when they are? Is it just from going past and seeing them?
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Did your friend get a test in the end?
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Aye, (at a walk-in centre, miles away
), and it was negative.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
It does seem to have taken up quite quickly. We went for a walk-in test middle of last week because my son had a cough (negative result). At that time it was really quiet. About ten bays, but only us and one other family in there. We know another family that went on Monday morning and there was a ten-minute queue (negative, and they got their results the same day), and another that went Monday evening. 90 minute wait and they were told the centre would be going to appointments because they couldn't cope. Today the centre was on the news and they were turning people away.
Anecdotal, but IMO what might be happening is a load of school kids that went back last week have picked up a variety of different viruses, and then the families are having to get tested.
Anecdotal, but IMO what might be happening is a load of school kids that went back last week have picked up a variety of different viruses, and then the families are having to get tested.
nyxx
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Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
My reading of void samples because they're (clearly) too old or transported at the wrong temperature etc is that they wouldn't bother going through a pointless process, i.e. that the test itself wouldn't be done. I may very well be wrong, but was wondering what people would be told in that situation.
And for those who are told the test was inconclusive - are they offered another (automatically)?
