Had a Covid Test Yesterday

Tommy_Dickfingers

Tommy_Dickfingers

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Thankfully it's negative.

With my job I do a bit of travelling around and started to feel lousy on Monday/Tuesday with a head cold, but with my job felt it was responsible to get a test.

Logged on the NHS website yesterday at 11.10, booked in for a test between 11.30/12.00, back home for 11.55.

Texted/Emailed result at 6.10am this morning.

The government get some knocks (rightly so) but even I was astonished at the turnaround time and how organised it was.
 
Tommy_Dickfingers said:
Thankfully it's negative.

With my job I do a bit of travelling around and started to feel lousy on Monday/Tuesday with a head cold, but with my job felt it was responsible to get a test.

Logged on the NHS website yesterday at 11.10, booked in for a test between 11.30/12.00, back home for 11.55.

Texted/Emailed result at 6.10am this morning.

The government get some knocks (rightly so) but even I was astonished at the turnaround time and how organised it was.
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I got one done couple of weeks back . Exact same timeline at Middlehaven and was excellent service and staff mega friendly . Couldn’t get over how big the site is with its routes and bases . Going to cost us a fortune mind
 
I get them weekly, as i pass the place when travelling between work and home, does not take long and generally the results are there the next morning or later that night.
 
It seems like testing is starting to reach the levels that the Government said it was at months ago. A little more honesty would have helped. E.g. masks, if the real reason that we weren't required to wear masks in shops when they re-opened was lack of supply then tell us that. In truth no-one really believes anything that Johnson says since we know he is being worked by Cummings.

My dad recently was chosen for a random test - unsurprisingly negative as he has been shielding since March.

Tommy, sounds like you've got man flu... thoughts and prayers to you at this difficult time.
 
I had one last week. I do think if there's one thing this government have got right its testing. Lots of rumours about false positives/negatives etc but surely the vast majority are accurate? I can't see how else we've been able to keep the R0 down.
 
That's fantastic service. I have nothing but good feedback for the NHS throughout this period (but for trying asking my partner to do a Covid-19 swab test mid labour!), the support for the birth of our son was absolutely tops.

I thought masks were ineffective, as confirmed by the WHO and also our own government a while back. The scaremongering relating to masks comes purely from a change in politics doesn't it?

Serious question, has England introduced a cut-off time period in relation someone who has tested "positive" for Covid-19, to recover and then test "negative" for Covid-19, how long it is after this that Covid-19 can no longer be classified as cause of death? I believe Scotland has a timescale in place. I stand to be corrected. It would be interesting to see some more accurate figures published - as would most.
 
Muttley said:
It seems like testing is starting to reach the levels that the Government said it was at months ago. A little more honesty would have helped. E.g. masks, if the real reason that we weren't required to wear masks in shops when they re-opened was lack of supply then tell us that. In truth no-one really believes anything that Johnson says since we know he is being worked by Cummings.

My dad recently was chosen for a random test - unsurprisingly negative as he has been shielding since March.

Tommy, sounds like you've got man flu... thoughts and prayers to you at this difficult time.
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Thanks.
As I keep saying to the missus, childbirth has **** all on what I'm going through now.
 
atypical_boro said:
I had one last week. I do think if there's one thing this government have got right its testing. Lots of rumours about false positives/negatives etc but surely the vast majority are accurate? I can't see how else we've been able to keep the R0 down.
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70% accuracy in the PCR tests less in the anti body tests.

The inventor of PCR tests specifically states not to use them for diagnosis. So no.
 
Alvez_48 said:
70% accuracy in the PCR tests less in the anti body tests.

The inventor of PCR tests specifically states not to use them for diagnosis. So no.
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Ok, well 70% might not be the 'vast' majority but its a comfortable majority that is surely having a positive impact of sorts.
 
atypical_boro said:
Ok, well 70% might not be the 'vast' majority but its a comfortable majority that is surely having a positive impact of sorts.
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It gives false positives and negatives.

The new 90 minute test is supposed to rule out false negatives but still has false positives. 👍🏻
 
Tommy_Dickfingers said:
Thankfully it's negative.

With my job I do a bit of travelling around and started to feel lousy on Monday/Tuesday with a head cold, but with my job felt it was responsible to get a test.

Logged on the NHS website yesterday at 11.10, booked in for a test between 11.30/12.00, back home for 11.55.

Texted/Emailed result at 6.10am this morning.

The government get some knocks (rightly so) but even I was astonished at the turnaround time and how organised it was.
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I'm astonished it came back negative.

😉

Good news.
 
I was tested at Middlehaven and also found it very well organised, but I think the issue if how many people are being tested, rather than the testing process itself - it was deserted when I went and if the trace and test programme was effective there should be many, many people being tested.

I'd also say that there is a chance you have falsely tested as negative (sorry!)
 
Alvez_48 said:
70% accuracy in the PCR tests less in the anti body tests.
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That's a vast over-simplification. There are lots of different PCR tests from lots of different manufacturers. The percentage accuracy varies from one manufacturer to another. You also have to differentiate between the sensitivity and specificity percentages. (Sensitivity measures positive accuracy; specificity measures negative accuracy).

Results also vary based on the circumstances of the test. Some tests show 100% sensitivity on positive samples in lab conditions, but less in the field. Many tests show lower specificity than sensitivity. Some inaccuracies are attributed to failings in the testing procedures (not swabbing correctly, for instance). The timing of the test also matters - the most accurate results are obtained on day 8 of infection. Unfortunately you don't necessarily know when the person contracted the disease.

So you can't just reduce it to a single number - life's never that simple.
 
I'm on the Biobank programme and more recently on the national statistics testing process . Anyone else?
 
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