birchwoodgingerste
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Did i hear right today a lot of people who have the virus still test negative?
Yeah, the car is outside but the people aren’t. They are inside a car, an enclosed space, no different to being inside a room. Also, they would not be 2m apart.
This one is about antibody tests rather than tests to see if you have it, but it gives you an idea of the accuracy (scroll right).Did i hear right today a lot of people who have the virus still test negative?
Possibly R is lower in the community excluding care homes and hospitals ( but they won't tell us the figures).Not disagreeing with you. But many have been saying ‘why not just a wait a couple weeks’ for a long time now.
70% of infected people dont show symptoms. The reason why this virus is such a bugger.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/28/people-infected-coronavirus-never-show-symptoms/
I find that hard to believe tbh.70% of infected people dont show symptoms. The reason why this virus is such a bugger.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/28/people-infected-coronavirus-never-show-symptoms/
I find that hard to believe tbh.
The conclusion if true (as stated in the article) would be that contact tracing would be unlikely to work, because even if you were 100% successful at identifying cases and their contacts and isolating all of them (clearly impossible) you would only be isolating 30% of infected people and their contacts. And perhaps half of that in reality.
And yet the empirical evidence from places like South Korea is that extensive testing and contact tracing does work, and in fact is incredibly effective. I cannot imagine how South Korea would have managed to keep the death toll down to 269 (they have a similar population and population density to us) if they could never identify 70% plus of infected people. That makes no sense.
70% of infected people dont show symptoms. The reason why this virus is such a bugger.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/28/people-infected-coronavirus-never-show-symptoms/
Especially as the R trend is upwards before new relaxations."Fragile state" and "Cautious easing of lockdown" seem to be phrases totally at odds with what is actually happening.
and the success rate of covid 19 tests is...
70%
Hmmmmm