Thats how you do testing

asredastheycome

asredastheycome

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An entire city of nine million people in China will be tested for Covid-19 in just five days after a small number of new cases emerged. People in Qingdao have been joining long queues for test centres following the confirmation of 12 infections, mostly linked to a hospital in the city, the state-run Global Times newspaper reported October 12. Qingdao Chest Hospital, which treats coronavirus patients who have returned from overseas, has been locked down along with buildings where the infected individuals live.

Qingdao's Municipal Health Commission said the testing of five districts would take three days, with the whole city being completed just two days later. Testing centres are reportedly remaining open as late as 11pm to ensure medical teams can complete their work. Qingdao's new infections came shortly after China had completed its Golden Week holiday, during which millions of people travel domestically to meet up with families.


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It's really the only way to do it....... in my opinion - everyone goes to their 'voting booth' location - I realise that some are mobile huts/kabins - but still you get the idea and you test the whole town at once

That's the only way to get a 'true picture' of the situation ... I also realise that the testing labs in this country probably couldn't cope with that, but still
 
My brother in law was invited to join a community screening scheme, he gets paid by the government to participate.

Last week he had a positive test result, with only one day left of his required quarantine!
 
A mate of mine was doing the same. Had at least six tests so far. All negative. Never had any symptoms only signed up as you get vouchers each time you are tested. Had about £150 in vouchers so far.
 
asredastheycome said:
An entire city of nine million people in China will be tested for Covid-19 in just five days after a small number of new cases emerged. People in Qingdao have been joining long queues for test centres following the confirmation of 12 infections, mostly linked to a hospital in the city, the state-run Global Times newspaper reported October 12. Qingdao Chest Hospital, which treats coronavirus patients who have returned from overseas, has been locked down along with buildings where the infected individuals live.

Qingdao's Municipal Health Commission said the testing of five districts would take three days, with the whole city being completed just two days later. Testing centres are reportedly remaining open as late as 11pm to ensure medical teams can complete their work. Qingdao's new infections came shortly after China had completed its Golden Week holiday, during which millions of people travel domestically to meet up with families.


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Do you realise how stupid doing that is? Seriously

9 million people. A false positive rate of 1% guarantees 90,000 positive cases. Therefore - epidemic!! Lock down city!

Are you guys for real?!
 
T_A_D said:
Do you realise how stupid doing that is? Seriously

9 million people. A false positive rate of 1% guarantees 90,000 positive cases. Therefore - epidemic!! Lock down city!

Are you guys for real?!
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Except they probably wouldn’t announce it!! Not really interested in China showing off at how great and efficient they are, if they were that great we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
 
FatCat said:
Except they probably wouldn’t announce it!! Not really interested in China showing off at how great and efficient they are, if they were that great we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
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It's like I'm in some weird nightmare where people say "yes, send me along for a test so the government can get lots of positive cases even if there were no infections. I'd love to only go to work, not socialise, not travel to see family, not go to watch sport, and only be allowed out for exercise once a day. Utter lunacy.
 
T_A_D said:
Do you realise how stupid doing that is? Seriously

9 million people. A false positive rate of 1% guarantees 90,000 positive cases. Therefore - epidemic!! Lock down city!

Are you guys for real?!
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1% false positives 😀

So when we were testing 150,000 two months ago we had a minimum of 1500 cases a day. We didn't.
 
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