Brighton Sky Blue
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The problem with PCR is that the more cycles you run the more likely you are to 'detect' virus even after the infection has subsided. I'm more confused as to where the false negatives are coming from
no it just as other have pointed out can lead to large numbers of false positives or negatives
You can not do mass testing at 97%
If they want to protect the NHS, they need to get on with it.You don't want to be headed this way.
Imagine that.
You don't want to be headed this way.
Imagine that.
This jumped out of the article for me.You don't want to be headed this way.
Imagine that.
We haven't been doing test on people without symptoms for months have we? Worrying that they are highlighting that as a cause of staff shortages in many areas with those that may not be infected having to quarantine. Our testing system is struggling to cope as it is.As of this past week, Belgium is no longer testing people without symptoms, even if they may have been exposed.
This jumped out of the article for me.
We haven't been doing test on people without symptoms for months have we? Worrying that they are highlighting that as a cause of staff shortages in many areas with those that may not be infected having to quarantine. Our testing system is struggling to cope as it is.
The problem with PCR is that the more cycles you run the more likely you are to 'detect' virus even after the infection has subsided. I'm more confused as to where the false negatives are coming from
Asymptomatic hospital staff " Come to work".This jumped out of the article for me.
We haven't been doing test on people without symptoms for months have we? Worrying that they are highlighting that as a cause of staff shortages in many areas with those that may not be infected having to quarantine. Our testing system is struggling to cope as it is.
Because no system is correct all the time and it will and already has had false negatives
I was tested no symptoms due to being in contact with a + case.We don't do tests without symptoms but it's only a self-declaration as to whether you do with no oversight by a medical professional
I was tested no symptoms due to being in contact with a + case.
I'm not interested in how shit the tories are - I don't think anyone is really in disagreement.
A debate on the virus and opinions/insight into certain things without wanking one off would be great though.
Fair enough. Though TBH most of my frustration with the virus is a sense that we’re going to be stuck in this shit forever for political reasons.
Think they've rationed them over the last couple of monthsHow? Both my ex who teaches and my partner who works in the NHS were refused tests because they had no symptoms.
I agree. It seems like a lot of the worst problems, esp now, were largely avoidable with strong leadership and sensible, albeit probably unpopular, action to contain it. Instead this fear of being unpopular, slavish preoccupation with economics ahead of public health and determination to give contracts to mates and donors have made things far, far worse than they needed to be.
This isn't Tory-bashing - I can't guarantee anyone else would've done a better job - but the fact is it's a Tory govt with a massive majority pulling the strings so they've got to carry the can for it, only they're trying their hardest not to and blame anyone and everyone else, including the scientists, the health professionals, local govt and the public. Always someone else's fault.
Their antics over the last 2 months go way beyond the notion of unpopular decisions.You’d think that the first year of a 5-year term is the time to make the unpopular decisions.
uYou’d think that the first year of a 5-year term is the time to make the unpopular decisions.
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Of course it would be, or at least in the first half of it, but Johnson seems obsessed with popularity. However, it's weird the stuff he'll leak to gauge opinion on first yet feeding needy kids out of term time, which hardly anyone would say isn't a worthy cause, is a hill they're (so far) willing to die on. Even more so when they're saying it should be a LA issue when LA funding has been drastically cut by their party while in power. So don't give them the money to be able to do it then blame them for not doing anything about it. Bizarre. I know we've been copying US culture for quite a while but this govt does increasingly have the hallmarks of the Trump administration.
Exactly this. They don’t seem to have anything other than to copy Trump. They’ve randomly started copying his war on critical race theory bringing it up during the debate on black history month last week.I know we've been copying US culture for quite a while but this govt does increasingly have the hallmarks of the Trump administration.
You’d think that the first year of a 5-year term is the time to make the unpopular decisions.
Just got a notification from the app, called 111 as I was due to be doing something important and they just said go get a test, did that and got results 2 days later, negative test thank god as it was important.How? Both my ex who teaches and my partner who works in the NHS were refused tests because they had no symptoms.
Just got a notification from the app, called 111 as I was due to be doing something important and they just said go get a test, did that and got results 2 days later, negative test thank god as it was important.
Has the test place at the Ricoh been closed? Went past yesterday and today and although there's a few high vis people it's not really doing much?
Has the test place at the Ricoh been closed? Went past yesterday and today and although there's a few high vis people it's not really doing much?
Has the test place at the Ricoh been closed? Went past yesterday and today and although there's a few high vis people it's not really doing much?
No idea, but it was pretty simple, it wa a only last week when I go tested well 9 days ago so maybe it changed since she had contact or symptoms?Mental. The exact thing happened with my ex and she wasn’t allowed a test and had to isolate for two weeks while someone else took her classes.
It never has. Massive waste of space that place
Bars and restaurants shut here from 18:00 now and 75% of teaching done online and the practical lessons done in school.
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