Have you caught Covid recently - updated poll 2022-23
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kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
Is this your third time or something?
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
So last week I admitted and prepared a patient for an 11 hour, life changing operation. They tested negative on the LFT but positive on the rapid ( we do rapid tests on patients going to ICU post op) so she was cancelled. I spent quite a bit of time with her ( had to keep reminding her to pull her mask up). So I was expecting covid (although in reality the only difference is that I knew this person was positive) so far no symptoms, but only testing using lft and clearly they are unreliable.
So short answer is still have never had covid......or maybe I have but its not showing?
So short answer is still have never had covid......or maybe I have but its not showing?
Voley
🐀
Honestly couldn't tell you. Could be as many as 3 times, yes, but this is the first time I've had a positive LFT. Never had one before despite various symptoms.
I definitely know I've had it this time mind.
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
2hats
Dust.
In the recent omicron era single RAT/LFTs are not proving to be of particularly great sensitivity (though specificity is still good).
For example, a Dutch evaluation of Flowflex, MPBio, Clinitest RATs against 3,600 asymptomatic cases (separately RT-PCR confirmed; subjects ages 16+ years) found sensitivities of 27.5% (95%CI:21.3-34.3), 20.9% (95%CI:13.9-29.4), and 25.6% (95%CI:19.1-33.1) respectively, rising to 48.3% (37.6-59.2), 37.8% (22.5-55.2%), 40.0% (29.5-51.2) where only using samples with higher gene copies per unit volume.
You'd have to start doing 4-8 tests to steer the diagnostic sensitivity back towards ~90%.
DOI:10.1016/j.cmi.2022.11.004.
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
I think it is. We have a special machine that only the Sisters and Matrons (band 6 and above)are allowed to use to run patient tests.
Voley
🐀
11th day since testing positive and I've still got a very faint 2nd line showing on the LFT but it's almost gone now.
We're both much better but we've no energy - had a very short walk around the village at lunchtime and felt inordinately tired afterwards. Hoping this is the beginning of the end of it now.
We're both much better but we've no energy - had a very short walk around the village at lunchtime and felt inordinately tired afterwards. Hoping this is the beginning of the end of it now.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Hope it accelerates away, @Voley
RoyReed
Must fly!
Just tested positive - my first time. So far it's just no taste and like a bad cold. I hope it stays that way, as I'm in a highly vulnerable group (stage 4 kidney failure and 70 years old). I've actually had a really bad cold for the last week (two negative tests during that period) but yesterday noticed I couldn't taste anything and tested this morning.
I voted for 'triple jabbed', but I'm actually five times jabbed.
I voted for 'triple jabbed', but I'm actually five times jabbed.
David Clapson
Well-Known Member
How many people in the UK haven't had it? (I haven't.)
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Still nope for me.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
I got a letter telling me that I qualified for treatment about two weeks after I had it.
Still if I am unlucky enough to get it again I will be straight onto them. Sent me another free set of testing kits too.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Hello covid, not my friend. I've tested positive again.
Been fighting a virus for a while (almost 2 weeks), but was testing negative and not feeling more ill than when fending off a mild head cold - just aware that combat was happening with some virus or other.
Super heavy positive line today though, following coughs, sneezes and a drippy tap nose.
Yay.
Been fighting a virus for a while (almost 2 weeks), but was testing negative and not feeling more ill than when fending off a mild head cold - just aware that combat was happening with some virus or other.
Super heavy positive line today though, following coughs, sneezes and a drippy tap nose.
Yay.
Get well soon, Mation!
Another wave once more well on the way, it seems. This now familiar pattern of not hearing anyone mention covid for a few weeks, and then within a couple of days hearing from my brother and his wife, two very close friends (including your good self) and a colleague.
A colleague who came specially to work Wednesday night to the busiest evening of our year after being at home feeling unwell all day, then the next day...
I would like to say I don't get it, how someone could do that- but I do get it. The peer/societal pressure to forget about covid and to once again be okay with people sneezing all over you is immense, it's quite astonishing. And it's not even our bosses. We do have a very generous sickness policy and people are staying off for all sorts all the time. So...
Another wave once more well on the way, it seems. This now familiar pattern of not hearing anyone mention covid for a few weeks, and then within a couple of days hearing from my brother and his wife, two very close friends (including your good self) and a colleague.
A colleague who came specially to work Wednesday night to the busiest evening of our year after being at home feeling unwell all day, then the next day...
I would like to say I don't get it, how someone could do that- but I do get it. The peer/societal pressure to forget about covid and to once again be okay with people sneezing all over you is immense, it's quite astonishing. And it's not even our bosses. We do have a very generous sickness policy and people are staying off for all sorts all the time. So...
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Thank you x
MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
My wife has tested positive and has flu like symptoms which suggest it’s likely omicron (or do the BA variants also have fever , sore throat, runny nose symptoms?).
She was feeling off / run down most of last week and then finally on Friday started to feel properly bad with a temperature of 38.5C, so I’m not sure if she succumbed to the virus because she was run down, or if she had a low level infection which was making her feel off, then it finally reached a level where symptoms became apparent. Her last covid vaccine was last Dec and wasn’t bivalent of course.
I’ve had a covid booster in mid Nov which was Pfizer bivalent, so in theory I have good protection and I’m hoping to escape without catching it. Mind you, since it was written up in my online medical notes that they‘d given me the flu jab, there is some doubt about it, but the nurse in the room said I was getting the new Pfizer and I’d gone in and asked for the covid shot, so I’m hoping that is indeed what I got.
She was feeling off / run down most of last week and then finally on Friday started to feel properly bad with a temperature of 38.5C, so I’m not sure if she succumbed to the virus because she was run down, or if she had a low level infection which was making her feel off, then it finally reached a level where symptoms became apparent. Her last covid vaccine was last Dec and wasn’t bivalent of course.
I’ve had a covid booster in mid Nov which was Pfizer bivalent, so in theory I have good protection and I’m hoping to escape without catching it. Mind you, since it was written up in my online medical notes that they‘d given me the flu jab, there is some doubt about it, but the nurse in the room said I was getting the new Pfizer and I’d gone in and asked for the covid shot, so I’m hoping that is indeed what I got.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
The shape of that sounds really similar to me. I've had this year's booster, though.
MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
She was a bit better yesterday evening so I’m hoping she will escape without it becoming serious. How long did yours last?
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Glad to hear it. Hope she's 100% again soon.
I only felt poorly for a couple of days, and not very poorly even then. Tested negative on the 5th and subsequent days after testing positive. I can still feel I've had something, a few days on from then, with the occasional sniffle or cough, but apart from that I've been fine. I mean, who knows, but so far so good.
MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
That’s encouraging! She’s regretting turning down the chance to get a booster shot in mid Nov when I got mine. I‘m a bit snotty like there’s something trying to break thru into an infection, but I’m hoping it won’t go beyond that, but this is just day 3 after she showed symptoms, so maybe still soon to say whether it’s gonna get me or not.
Numbers
an ting!
Mrs Numbers has finally succumbed, 2 tests 2 thick lines. She started feeling something yesterday and today is worser. She’s fully jabbed up but has high blood pressure so is a little worried.
Hopefully she’ll be OK. I’ve suggested she takes a cpl of days off to relax, I’ve had more time off sick this year than she has in 10 years.
Hopefully she’ll be OK. I’ve suggested she takes a cpl of days off to relax, I’ve had more time off sick this year than she has in 10 years.
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