COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[domalino]

The article posted says it hasn't got approval even in Thailand yet and is undergoing trials?

See Vic's post above, the Americans have already approved the same type of test and are rolling it out - 5million of them.

 

[ganganvince]

See Vic's post above, the Americans have already approved the same type of test and are rolling it out.

Just seen it 91% - 99% accuracy don't believe Mr. Whitty would go for that unless they can get near the 99%.

 

[Phil1]

Ha. She’s also got a City water bottle, City pencil case and she’s put a picture of Kompany lifting the PL trophy on the fridge.

I’ve created a monster.

edit: she’s up for getting player names in! This is great.

Stop it now, I think I’m falling in love.

 

[SWP's back]

Stop it now, I think I’m falling in love.

You’ve not seen her yet. She’s a female version of me, but with hair.

 

[Claytop]

We had so much time to avoid matching Italy's numbers. Looks like we might exceed them now.

Can only conclude that the herd immunity thing was never fully abandoned, just that an acceptable percentage of the country being infected was decided on instead. Cheers, the government. I may be wrong, but I cant see why else we'd walk so blindly down this path we've chosen to take with substantial warnings and time we had been given. Bleak.

Still tracking under both Spain & Italy going from 50th death. Granted there’s been a spike in the last couple days which doesn’t look great.

 

[Phil1]

You’ve not seen her yet. She’s a female version of me, but with hair.

That’s just sealed the deal :-)

 

[domalino]

Just seen it 91% - 99% accuracy don't believe Mr. Whitty would go for that unless they can get near the 99%.

Right but that's exactly the problem.

Specificity rate is the success rate of picking up negatives properly. That's the 91%

Sensitivity is the success of picking up positives correctly. That's 99%.

Accurate testing of millions of people a week with 15 minute results vs. 100% accurate testing of 10,000 a day with a 4 day wait.

This is a classic example of "don't let perfection be the enemy of very good".

And in the Thai trial, they sent the negative responses back and isolated them before testing them 3 days later to confirm - which would make the chances of being false negative both times closer to 0.01%.

 

[Claytop]

Ha. I tried:

this is what she’s put out:

Bless I think she thought I was being serious about Pete the badge. (“Pampa” is my Dad’s ashes behind the star as she wants him on tv as well - its a strange family) She’s also struggling typing “with”.

Edit: she asked me to post this link if anyone has a spare fiver for a great cause:

https://www.cancercare.org.uk/support-us/donations

Remember building the model Etihad (if that’s the one she’s got there) was abit of a mission!

 

[shilly8903]

Young kids, mate. One of them is a proper twat where sleep is concerned and there’s no chance the missus is getting out of bed before 9!

Feel your pain there, my misses is still snoring she half mattress half human.

 

[domalino]

Well.........
What the antibody test does in this case is simply describe if the patient Has or Had covid. It doesn't reduce the need for a PCR test. In the trail described, all those who tested positive for antibody were then referred for a PCR test. So it doesn't speed anything up and in fact puts extra burden on the PCR test as no people who are no longer infectious also need to be tested.

So in my view the Doc is correct that the antibody test doesn't replace the PCR test.They are both required to distinguish between those who may need treatment and those who don't.

First things first, the Doc is not right. He very clearly said in the video that you cannot use the antibody test to diagnose current infections. Which is wrong, because that's exactly what America and the Thai trial are doing. He's operating on out of date information, from a time when we weren't in a global crisis and people could wait 28 days to guarantee 100% accurate testing instead of 99%.

Secondly, it massively reduces need for PCR tests because it has a 99% success rate at picking up positive cases. And they are the only ones who get PCR'd.

If you applied that to the current UK numbers of testing - 152,000 tests and 29,000 positives. With the antibody test, 152,000 PCR tests would drop to pretty much 43,000, because the 9% of people who got a false negative would then become positive in their second test.