Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

Anyone here get tested recently?

How long are test results taking to come back from testing?

The covid tester said 24 to 48 hours. I got a test today but I need the results tomorrow.

Its in the article...

" Of the 25,433 fully vaccinated people, 9,775 or 16.7 per cent were self-reported as being jabbed and 15,658 or 26.8 per cent were checked through the Covax vaccination programme system."

I guess phone number could be used?

As of 8pm last night

In hospital 483 and in ICU 91

Last Monday those numbers was 500 and 99

It's true, yet you can guarantee others will do the total opposite though. France just starting to tick up now and then the med countries will no doubt follow. We could easily have a stage where the UK are the only country in Europe not under any restrictions at Christmas, imagine that.

There's not an awful lot of point making these weekly comparisons, as these numbers swing around a lot, but going down is always good to see.

The short answer here is that cases are already not translating to hospitalisations. Since July we've seen hospitalisations shooting up while cases were at 1500 a day, and dropping while at 2k/day.

There is still of course a rough link; cases up = hospitalisations up. However it's not as predictable as it was previously. Mainly because of the age profile. If 3000 of yesterday's new cases are under 25 (they're not, just for example), there'll be practically zero hospitalisations from that. Whereas in earlier phases of the pandemic you could be fairly guaranteed that each day's cases would be predictably distributed across age profiles, leading to a predictable # of hospitalisations.

Case numbers have jumped now, bang on to coincide with the reopening of nightclubs and other close-quarters activities on 22nd October. But crucially, these are mostly young person activities. Unlike pubs or restaurants, the amount of over-40s in coppers will be tiny.

Hospitalisations do also have a tendency to stabilise. When they first go up, we see an overall increase, but if 100 people are admitted today, they will mostly be discharged 4-5 days later. Eventually discharges catch up with admissions and the numbers stabilise, as is happening now. They didn't in the past because cases grew exponentially. But now cases are not growing exponentially. They're rising much more slowly.

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Aside from that, and absolutely anecdotal, I would be curious to know whether the rate of false positives is increasing. The gap between swabs and cases is getting much wider.

I know a family, who all developed the same sniffle/cough RSV symptoms that the entire country has gotten over the last few weeks. All did antigen tests, negative. All got swabbed, kids & mother tested negative, father tests positive.

Curious as to how the antigens got it so wrong, the father went back and did another PCR test the very next day, comes back negative.

Between contact tracing and the rest, over the next two weeks, both parents had 4 PCR tests each, and both returned one positive and 3 negatives. They burned through four boxes of antigen tests without returning a single positive. The kids were each swabbed 3 times and never tested positive. Which makes no sense since there were no quarantine/hygiene barriers employed between the kids and the parents, and they're the ones who are unvaccinated.

Their working theory is that at some point in the recent past, both of the parents contracted covid, but were asymptomatic. They then went for tests on the back of the RSV symptoms, and the PCR tests managed to pick up the miniscule amount of material still hanging around from an infection that passed weeks or even months ago. This is why you're asked not to get a PCR test if you've had covid in the last 9 months.

Yes, it's absolutely anecdotal, but IF this is not a unique scenario, if it's happening commonly, then it would suggest that many of the day-to-day cases now being picked up, are people who are long past recovered from Covid. Which would go some way to explaining why case numbers can be so high (and rising) while hospital numbers are stable and ICU numbers are dropping.

I believe MM was on the radio this morning. His main subject “ Can’t guarantee re introduction of restrictions “ “ cases are very concerning “ blah blah blah

Jesus M, make up your mind soon for a lockdown if you want one, need to know do i fill the container and lock it up for off!

FWIW just adding to the above my father (HCW) is ill at the moment and has virtually every COVID symptom except loss of taste and tested negative. Was convinced he has COVID but 🤷‍♂️

My sisters boyfriend has every symptom of covid, his mother and sister who live in the same house are positive but hes tested negative twice.

They had a national night time curfew that went on for three months at the start of the year.