people can show positives way way after the ten days, in some cases months. i was speaking on the phone to the test and trace folks and they were saying that the main thing on day ten is a normal temperature. i explicitly asked them that if i was still testing positive to carry on isolating, and they said no as i was confused too.was the whole point of a lateral flow test not to show when you are current got a high load of the virus and are infectious
nah screw it after 10 days you are fine even if still showing a positive result
have I missed some thing
They are inaccurate. The false negative rate is high. But the false positive rate is very low, so taking a positive result as “definitely got it” does make sense. Treating a negative result as “definitely don’t have it” is not such a good idea.
So this is likely going to be me, post-Covid, completed 10 days of isolation, but still getting positive LFTs. How do you prove your safety to places that ask for a negative test - does your Covid pass automatically take into account your recent positive experience?
I'm not saying they're super accurate, but I think they are more accurate than was initially highly publicised to the point where people don't take them seriously enough when they do get a positive.
public understanding probably not helped by the large numbers of people who were (incorrectly) getting negative PCR results after a positive LFD result a few months ago.
Thats one of the ongoing ways they will continue to do overall infection rate surveillance even when the testing system becomes too stretched to give the same clarity of picture as it once could.
Yes, you are correct.
Weird, test and trace gave 10 days fro symptoms appearance to my ex (her PCR was 5 days after the onset)
I managed to order some online Monday morning, still waiting on delivery though.
that's because she had symptoms. the rule was for people with no symptoms but positive tests
ah OK
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Yeah I think the existing guidance is slightly more complicated than I previously tended to think. I believe that if you initially test positive but dont have any symptoms, but then later symptoms begin, then they tend to start the 10 days from the symptom onset date. Thats just one example of nuance in the guidance, but it probably isnt evenly applied and there are different combinations of this stuff and the tests people end up taking.
They seem to be improving - I last got some on NYD, but I've been seeing messages on kids' school whatsapp in the last few days saying when they're available and the gaps in supply seem to be getting shorter, like maybe half a day rather than vanishing for days on end.
We were able to order some online a few days ago - the online system seems to get replenished at random intervals, so it's just a question of retrying several times throughout the day/night and hope you get lucky.
Are there no walk-in test places near you, Carvaged?Yeah eventually I thought fuck it, I'll say I'm suffering one of the three symptoms that qualify for a PCR as this is ridiculous. However:
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Which is rather like trying to order some LFTs:
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So nothing. Nowhere. What a useless bunch of idiots these Tories are
I think thinking of them as inaccurate is unhelpful.
I think the issue has been in communicating something which is not simple black and white. The false negative and false positive rates are very different. There is a problem when people think a negative test means they definitely don’t have covid and use that info as a basis for doing a higher risk activity, eg visiting someone in the CEV bracket.
