Lateral Flow Tests

Abbafan1972

Re:- reporting negative results.  We were regularly doing tests and reporting the (negative) results, the advice on screen said that as I was regularly reporting a negative result, there was no need to do any more tests?

silvercar

Our positivity rate is determined by PCR tests not LFTs.

Tokmon

baza52 said:

so UK population is roughly 68 million multiply that by 2 tests per week and you would have 136 million tests. Yet they are only getting roughly 1 million a week.
Most people are just fed up with it all now and im one of them.
My Daughter tested positive a few weeks ago and as a household we took tests but stayed negative. We didnt report them as negative nor would we bother again.

So less than 1% of the whole of the UK are following the rules, why do you think that is?

Well it's 7 million a week so a lot of people are reporting them. But i don't see the point in doing them if you aren't going to do it properly and report the results. 

If you don't want to bother doing them at all then that's up to you, but if you do them at least do it properly.

GlennTheBaker said:

The FDA advised weeks ago that the Innova rapid antigen tests are garbage and should be treated as such.

Incessant testing of healthy people is ridiculous.

Well maybe if people reported there negative result each time then the government would be getting lots of data saying they aren't working and could justify getting rid of them. That's another reason why reporting the results is important so they can see how effective they actually are. 
If they found lots of people testing negative using a Lateral flow test and then actually confirmed to have covid they could then prove quantitatively they are no good. 

baza52

Tokmon said:

baza52 said:

so UK population is roughly 68 million multiply that by 2 tests per week and you would have 136 million tests. Yet they are only getting roughly 1 million a week.
Most people are just fed up with it all now and im one of them.
My Daughter tested positive a few weeks ago and as a household we took tests but stayed negative. We didnt report them as negative nor would we bother again.

So less than 1% of the whole of the UK are following the rules, why do you think that is?

Well it's 7 million a week so a lot of people are reporting them. But i don't see the point in doing them if you aren't going to do it properly and report the results. 

If you don't want to bother doing them at all then that's up to you, but if you do them at least do it properly.

ok yes its 7 million a week, my mistake.
But, if people are testing twice weekly thats still just 3.5 million testing out of 68 million. just shy of 5% of the population or 1 in 20.
Im not going to test every few days if i dont have symptoms, yes i appreciate you can have covid with no symptoms but im just not prepared to do it.
I dont check if i have flu, measles, a cold or anything else so why should i bother?

sheramber

reported on my local facebook. 

Husband and wife  LFT  test negative, reported to NHS . this is the reply

Nebulous2

sheramber said:

reported on my local facebook. 

Husband and wife  LFT  test negative, reported to NHS . this is the reply

I reckon that's fake / photoshopped. In Scotland anyway, reporting a test result doesn't look like that. 

sheramber

Reported by local GP who reports covid stats

A technical glitch within Public Health Scotland means no numbers to report. They are adding them into today’s figures so don’t be shocked with a big rise tomorrow.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-daily-data-for-scotland/

The technical issues that prevented publication of yesterday’s confirmed COVID-19 cases and test positivity have now been resolved. 

y3sitsm3

Thrugelmir said:

Tokmon said:

baza52 said:

Tokmon said:

sammyjammy said:

Most people doing an LFT test are not testing because they have symptoms either,  just for caution

Exactly which is why knowing how many people doing the test is so important. If a million people do the test and 30k test positive and didn't have symptoms they can then estimate what proportion of the population has covid with no symptoms.

But if people don't report negative results and the number of people in total who have done the test will be wrong. That means the percentage of people testing positive will be higher in their figures so covid will look worse than it is.

but the figures would only be worth knowing if everybody tested all the time. 
I dont know anyone that does tests regularly unless required to for work.
If you are only seeing results from those that are vulnerable or have to test the results mean nothing 

Plus imagine if the vaccine and other measures eventually works so well there were hardly any positive cases being reported.

Too many in the population are unvaccinnated at the current time. Globally the fight hasn't even started against Covid yet. There's a long haul ahead. 

No they aren't. Stop being silly.  Over 80% of people aged 16 or higher have been double vaccinated and near 90% have had at least one dose.

That's a phenomenal result.  We don't need people like yourself putting a pointless dampener on it because you're a negative Nancy.

Tokmon

baza52 said:

Tokmon said:

baza52 said:

so UK population is roughly 68 million multiply that by 2 tests per week and you would have 136 million tests. Yet they are only getting roughly 1 million a week.
Most people are just fed up with it all now and im one of them.
My Daughter tested positive a few weeks ago and as a household we took tests but stayed negative. We didnt report them as negative nor would we bother again.

So less than 1% of the whole of the UK are following the rules, why do you think that is?

Well it's 7 million a week so a lot of people are reporting them. But i don't see the point in doing them if you aren't going to do it properly and report the results. 

If you don't want to bother doing them at all then that's up to you, but if you do them at least do it properly.

ok yes its 7 million a week, my mistake.
But, if people are testing twice weekly thats still just 3.5 million testing out of 68 million. just shy of 5% of the population or 1 in 20.
Im not going to test every few days if i dont have symptoms, yes i appreciate you can have covid with no symptoms but im just not prepared to do it.
I dont check if i have flu, measles, a cold or anything else so why should i bother?

Well covid19 is still causing pressure on the NHS with a large amount of hospital admissions so they want people to test regularly to reduce the spread and reduce the amount of people going into hospital. The flu, measles etc don't cause a large influx of people into hospital so that's the reasoning behind it. 

But it's not that effective because a lot of people won't be doing the test correctly and people aren't reporting the results correctly so if someone doesn't want to do it then they are even less likely to do it properly if forced.

sheramber said:

reported on my local facebook. 

Husband and wife  LFT  test negative, reported to NHS . this is the reply

Considering you can copy and paste one line of JavaScript into the address bar of any website and then change and text you want on the page a fake like this can be produced in less than 10 seconds. Unfortunately a lot of people will believe this to be genuine and use it to justify some illogical conspiracy theory.

sheramber

It has been reported  by Public Health Scotland that there was a technical hitch on that day . 

It has been sorted now.