| Nerdy covid test numbers question 17:00 - Nov 17 with 1065 views | GeoffSentence |
Greetings to the great and good of TWTD, but so you don't feel left out, greetings to you lesser folks too.
Just as a matter of interest, does anyone on here know which covid tests are counted and how they tie the test results up.
For context, my daughter test positive on a lat flow test on Friday, and then had to go for a PCR test to confirm on Saturday.
Naturally, they won't both be counted as positives, so do they count the PCR and not the lat flow? In the event of a PCR coming back negative even though there was a positive lat flow, does that count as a negative? And in those cases where naughty people don't follow up a positive lat flow with a PCR as they are told to do, what then? Does that count as a postive or not? |  |
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| (No subject) (n/t) on 17:29 - Nov 17 with 987 views | NthQldITFC |
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| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 17:30 - Nov 17 with 988 views | NthQldITFC |
Dunno, but the Netherlands data looks grim at the moment. Greater than 1 in 1000 of populace new positive tests yesterday, and what looks very much like near exponential growth still!
(Glad to be of as much help as usual!) | |
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| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 17:32 - Nov 17 with 977 views | GeoffSentence |
| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 17:30 - Nov 17 by NthQldITFC |
Dunno, but the Netherlands data looks grim at the moment. Greater than 1 in 1000 of populace new positive tests yesterday, and what looks very much like near exponential growth still!
(Glad to be of as much help as usual!) |
Your 'help' is always welcome. It's just nice that someone was paying attention. | |
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| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 18:34 - Nov 17 with 934 views | NthQldITFC |
| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 17:32 - Nov 17 by GeoffSentence |
Your 'help' is always welcome. It's just nice that someone was paying attention. |
Sorry, what? | |
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| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 18:42 - Nov 17 with 918 views | StokieBlue |
Given we are a "united" kingdom this isn't as straightforward as you would think.
In England both PCR and LFT tests count towards the numbers (although I guess you need to do a government LFT and upload the result). In the other home nations only PCR tests are included.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/about-data
We can't even agree amongst ourselves how to count tests, an example of our general problems in microcosm if ever I saw one.
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| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 18:55 - Nov 17 with 889 views | Pinewoodblue |
Does this help?
38,263 new cases and 201 new deaths in the United Kingdom. NOTE from the UK government [source: cases > about]: "The way cases are reported in England changed on 21 May 2021. Reported cases are sometimes removed if subsequent tests are negative. This happens when cases identified through a positive rapid lateral flow test are followed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests within 3 days that are all negative. These cases are removed daily from 21 May 2021. Because of this, the number of newly-reported cases may not be the same as the difference between the total number of reported cases from one day to the next. The number of newly-reported cases in England and the UK is adjusted to take this into account, but the numbers for regions and local authorities are not adjusted. This means that for regions and local authorities, this figure does not show the actual number of new cases reported on that date."
They only know the result of the LF test if you tell them. The naughty people, to which you refer, wouldn't report the positive LF test.] |  |
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| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 18:56 - Nov 17 with 884 views | GeoffSentence |
| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 18:42 - Nov 17 by StokieBlue |
Given we are a "united" kingdom this isn't as straightforward as you would think.
In England both PCR and LFT tests count towards the numbers (although I guess you need to do a government LFT and upload the result). In the other home nations only PCR tests are included.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/about-data
We can't even agree amongst ourselves how to count tests, an example of our general problems in microcosm if ever I saw one.
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As is so often the case Stokie, you have come up with the goods.
Looks like this is the paragraph I wanted
"COVID-19 cases are identified by taking specimens from people and testing them for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. If the test is positive (except for rapid lateral flow tests which have negative confirmatory lab-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests taken within 72 hours), this is referred to as a case. If a person has more than one positive test, they are only counted as one case for all nations with the exception of Wales."
So they count positive lat flow test, unless there PCR comes back negative within 72hours.
And only one positive person,. | |
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| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 18:59 - Nov 17 with 869 views | GeoffSentence |
| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 18:55 - Nov 17 by Pinewoodblue |
Does this help?
38,263 new cases and 201 new deaths in the United Kingdom. NOTE from the UK government [source: cases > about]: "The way cases are reported in England changed on 21 May 2021. Reported cases are sometimes removed if subsequent tests are negative. This happens when cases identified through a positive rapid lateral flow test are followed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests within 3 days that are all negative. These cases are removed daily from 21 May 2021. Because of this, the number of newly-reported cases may not be the same as the difference between the total number of reported cases from one day to the next. The number of newly-reported cases in England and the UK is adjusted to take this into account, but the numbers for regions and local authorities are not adjusted. This means that for regions and local authorities, this figure does not show the actual number of new cases reported on that date."
They only know the result of the LF test if you tell them. The naughty people, to which you refer, wouldn't report the positive LF test.] |
The naughty people might be just lazy rather than all bad. i can see a situation where some would report a lat flow, because that can be done from home, but not follow up with the PCR particulalry if the test site is a little out of the way. | |
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| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 19:06 - Nov 17 with 850 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Nerdy covid test numbers question on 18:59 - Nov 17 by GeoffSentence |
The naughty people might be just lazy rather than all bad. i can see a situation where some would report a lat flow, because that can be done from home, but not follow up with the PCR particulalry if the test site is a little out of the way. |
When the wife tested positive by LF test, they offered to deliver and later collect the PCR test. Drove her to the local covid test site, appointment was within the hour. She got the result back in less than 12 hours.
I had one posted to me, after you have done the test you post it back using specific special collection mail points. Result back in 48 hours. | |
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