Lateral Flow Tests

JamoLew

wannabe_a_saver said:

Thrugelmir said:

Batesy1976 said:

Thrugelmir said:

Sea_Shell said:

GDB2222 said:

The thing is, though, that, most of the transmission is apparently by people who are asymptomatic. If we picked up just 76% of asymptomatic sufferers, and IF they self-isolated, we could reduce the R rate by roughly 76%. The cases of virus would then decrease exponentially very, very fast.

We could then either open up the economy more, or we could use the very low R to drive the infection rate to almost nothing and then reopen the economy. 

It would take around 4 weeks of everyone testing to drive the number of daily cases down from several thousand to just 2 or 3 individuals, and I think that even our test and trace people could handle that.  

There would be a lot of false positives, but these people should quickly get a PCR test, and they would only have to self-isolate for a day or two before any negative cases were told that.   

Now that more and more are being vaccinated, we need to get on...live, make plans, do stuff.

Still a race to build immunity levels before the virus has a chance to mutate. Interesting that around 1:30 hospital admissions are for people who have received one jab. Suggests relaxation at a personal level is a little too quick. 

So at current hospital admission rates, jsut short of 8 people a day?  Hardly a big problem.

The continuing transmission of Covid is. Long Covid could become an issue for a far greater number of people. 

Continuing restrictions cause harm too. 

What is really needed now is for the government to start funding the NHS to deal with the fact that Covid as an endemic virus.  More staff, more beds, research into how to best treat long covid. 

Probably need to deal with the 10,000s of cancer patients first.

There are and will be many more “unseen” and indirect deaths than Covid caused directly  

Shame there is no money (apparently)

Sea_Shell

JamoLew said:

wannabe_a_saver said:

Thrugelmir said:

Batesy1976 said:

Thrugelmir said:

Sea_Shell said:

GDB2222 said:

The thing is, though, that, most of the transmission is apparently by people who are asymptomatic. If we picked up just 76% of asymptomatic sufferers, and IF they self-isolated, we could reduce the R rate by roughly 76%. The cases of virus would then decrease exponentially very, very fast.

We could then either open up the economy more, or we could use the very low R to drive the infection rate to almost nothing and then reopen the economy. 

It would take around 4 weeks of everyone testing to drive the number of daily cases down from several thousand to just 2 or 3 individuals, and I think that even our test and trace people could handle that.  

There would be a lot of false positives, but these people should quickly get a PCR test, and they would only have to self-isolate for a day or two before any negative cases were told that.   

Now that more and more are being vaccinated, we need to get on...live, make plans, do stuff.

Still a race to build immunity levels before the virus has a chance to mutate. Interesting that around 1:30 hospital admissions are for people who have received one jab. Suggests relaxation at a personal level is a little too quick. 

So at current hospital admission rates, jsut short of 8 people a day?  Hardly a big problem.

The continuing transmission of Covid is. Long Covid could become an issue for a far greater number of people. 

Continuing restrictions cause harm too. 

What is really needed now is for the government to start funding the NHS to deal with the fact that Covid as an endemic virus.  More staff, more beds, research into how to best treat long covid. 

Probably need to deal with the 10,000s of cancer patients first.

There are and will be many more “unseen” and indirect deaths than Covid caused directly  

Shame there is no money (apparently)

Agree.    The "pressure" on the NHS will not let up, whilst they have a massive back-log of non-Covid patients that need treatment or operations.    They still need to be working flat out,, it might just shift departments.   Can they afford to take their foot off the gas!!?

This crisis is not over....just the focus will shift.

wannabe_a_saver

JamoLew said:

wannabe_a_saver said:

Thrugelmir said:

Batesy1976 said:

Thrugelmir said:

Sea_Shell said:

GDB2222 said:

The thing is, though, that, most of the transmission is apparently by people who are asymptomatic. If we picked up just 76% of asymptomatic sufferers, and IF they self-isolated, we could reduce the R rate by roughly 76%. The cases of virus would then decrease exponentially very, very fast.

We could then either open up the economy more, or we could use the very low R to drive the infection rate to almost nothing and then reopen the economy. 

It would take around 4 weeks of everyone testing to drive the number of daily cases down from several thousand to just 2 or 3 individuals, and I think that even our test and trace people could handle that.  

There would be a lot of false positives, but these people should quickly get a PCR test, and they would only have to self-isolate for a day or two before any negative cases were told that.   

Now that more and more are being vaccinated, we need to get on...live, make plans, do stuff.

Still a race to build immunity levels before the virus has a chance to mutate. Interesting that around 1:30 hospital admissions are for people who have received one jab. Suggests relaxation at a personal level is a little too quick. 

So at current hospital admission rates, jsut short of 8 people a day?  Hardly a big problem.

The continuing transmission of Covid is. Long Covid could become an issue for a far greater number of people. 

Continuing restrictions cause harm too. 

What is really needed now is for the government to start funding the NHS to deal with the fact that Covid as an endemic virus.  More staff, more beds, research into how to best treat long covid. 

Probably need to deal with the 10,000s of cancer patients first.

There are and will be many more “unseen” and indirect deaths than Covid caused directly  

Shame there is no money (apparently)

Cancer treatment never stopped, although I'm sure you are right that there will be a number of cancers that are detected later than they would have been in normal times. 

JamoLew

There is a huge backlog.

Lots of surgery was delayed and postponed

Lots of people didn’t have issues-problems investigated for one reason or another


We are currently sat on a ticking time bomb

Article in the Sunday Times suggests 350,000 missing referrals and judging from our activity and information given this week, I can well believe this figure

sillyvixen

we do twice weekly lateral flow tests, I have known of one person recieve a positive result and that was confirmed by a PCR test - she developed symptoms 3 days later. The LFT result ment she was off work and isolating 3 days before she had any symptoms. As I work on multiple sites, without this sort of testing I would have worked with her and could have unknowingly spread the virus to 2 other teams before her symptoms started!!