Coronavirus discussion thread

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HappyG(rrr) Mar 2022 10:13am, 29 Mar 2022 41,868 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) L 78yo dad tested positive this morning. Given he frequents the gym daily, goes to a theatre group several nights a week and is generally pretty sociable feels like it was pretty inevitable there'd be a positive at some point. And timed just 3 days after getting his 4th jab too. It really does seem to be in a phase of mopping up all those of us who haven't yet knowingly had a positive. Larks, that's how I feel and yet the stats tell us differently - only 30 something percent of population have had it (20+ M), so 40+ M of us have not had it. That's a lot of "mopping up". G
HappyG(rrr) Mar 2022 10:14am, 29 Mar 2022 41,869 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) Hope your dad is OK, by the way and any and all others who have picked it up recently.
HappyG(rrr) Mar 2022 11:34am, 29 Mar 2022 41,874 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) A vague bounce for the Have you had Covid? poll over in the sidebar there >> And repeated here for front of face-ness The number of blogs and posts on threads saying "I've got it", "Our family has it", "Positive for first time" etc. I'm just surprised it's still 62% No! Best wishes to anyone who has tested positive for mild symptoms and speedy recovery. G
HappyG(rrr) Mar 2022 11:35am, 29 Mar 2022 41,875 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) D'oh and I linked Dio's by mistake. Sorry, meant my one [POLL_9619]
HappyG(rrr) Mar 2022 11:36am, 29 Mar 2022 41,876 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) even, double d'oh!
icemaiden Mar 2022 12:09pm, 29 Mar 2022 5,410 posts	0 icemaiden Only c. 21M people have been found to have had covid. An unknown proportion have had it and never been tested.
DeeGee Mar 2022 12:10pm, 29 Mar 2022 21,872 posts	0 DeeGee Now, someone on the support thread is reporting six negative LFTs but a positive PCR. People are no longer having confirmatory PCRs and only get them if showing symptoms, and one person's symptoms is another person's default setting for this time of year. I've done daily LFTs for the best part of two weeks after my son tested positive 11 days ago, all of which have come up negative, but I've had sore shoulders, headache and sneezing. Maybe I should have gone for a PCR, but I had a car door slammed in my back just before my son's positive COVID test, and I've been working from home on the dining room table. I can't really read my laptop screen properly with or without my glasses, and late March early April's a bad time for allergies for me. So I'm not going to PCR because these "symptoms" are entirely explainable.
larkim Mar 2022 12:47pm, 29 Mar 2022 17,502 posts	0 larkim I did regular tests whilst I felt I had a bit of a sniffle and returned no positives so didn't even think about PCR'ing, but my acid test for me is the fact that in a household of 5 if one of us gets it then the chances are pretty high that one of the others will get more obvious dose and / or someone else in the house will test positive on LFD. Even with an unreliable test, high frequency and high volumes of testing should pump out a positive on LFD if there's one to be found, unless we're all just doing them wrong!
DeeGee Mar 2022 12:53pm, 29 Mar 2022 21,873 posts	0 DeeGee We're a family of four, we've had two separate cases of Covid three months apart, and on each occasion only one of the three of us has tested positive. Now, given that on no occasions is it me who is testing positive, might that perhaps point towards me doing the testing wrong?
AndyS Mar 2022 1:01pm, 29 Mar 2022 1,098 posts	0 AndyS Now, someone on the support thread is reporting six negative LFTs but a positive PCR. That sounds like me - 3 -ve LFTs (from two different boxes) Th/Fr/Sa, +ve PCR (test Mon, result Tue), followed by 3 -ve LFT (again, two boxes) the next Th/Fr/Sa. might that perhaps point towards me doing the testing wrong Maybe, maybe not - after my recent experience, I've lost confidence in LFTs.