Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Nymzee]

I tested positive on Friday. I have very mild symptoms. I have lost smell and taste. But getting through it..

You've literally got my name. Love it. A clone.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Hospital figures - 126 deaths were announced today, down 25 on yesterday and up 34 on last Wednesday. 94 deaths were in English hospitals, down 40 on yesterday and up 26 on last week with all occurring in the past 10 days. The 7 day rolling average rises to an even 108

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 191 deaths were announced today, down 50 on yesterday and up 54 on last Wednesday. The 7 day rolling rises to 143.29

For the 60 day cut off, 200 deaths were announced today, down 56 on yesterday and up 50 on last Wednesday. The 7 day rolling average rises to 149.43

 

[Moomin]

I tested positive on Friday. I have very mild symptoms. I have lost smell and taste. But getting through it..

My wife has tested positive, she was on the exercise bike when she got the results. Not suffering too bad.

I've got a test in the morning.

 

[James Roberts]

My wife has tested positive, she was on the exercise bike when she got the results. Not suffering too bad.

I've got a test in the morning.

my wife is fine with no symptoms.... we have been in different rooms since friday.. At first she thought i was a Derby day ruse so i could watch the game without interuption.

 

[COYBL25]

My wife has tested positive, she was on the exercise bike when she got the results. Not suffering too bad.

I've got a test in the morning.

Stock up on the way back mate, just in case :

As many paracetamol / Ibuprofen as you can get, loads and loads of cleaning products / sanitising stuff etc - just in case you’re negative, as your going to be doing all the fetching and carrying for her whilst she isolates.

Book an online delivery slot with a supermarket, as you won’t be able to leave the house for 14 days, starting from today and 10 days if you get a positive result.

If you’ve got kids, you need to email the school now, so they can sort out sending the kids from the bubble home / telling them not to come in.

Track and trace should be in touch tomorrow.

 

[Catfish Blues]

Royal completely different then , we only started wearing masks ourselves about 4 weeks ago and now this week it's everyone.

Interesting if they have different policies and one is being said to be filling up fast.

The royal could lose a third of its staff once testing them.

That's bizarre. I'm not familiar with the Royal, but I can't understand why a nationwide policy which has been in place since mid June has only just been implemented ( unless the part of the building you're in is not actually part of the hospital itself ? ).

Face masks and coverings to be worn by all NHS hospital staff and visitors

All staff in hospitals in England will be provided with surgical masks which they will be expected to wear from 15 June. All visitors and outpatients must wear face coverings at all times.

www.gov.uk

 

[Catfish Blues]

Stock up on the way back mate, just in case :

As many paracetamol / Ibuprofen as you can get, loads and loads of cleaning products / sanitising stuff etc - just in case you’re negative, as your going to be doing all the fetching and carrying for her whilst she isolates.

Book an online delivery slot with a supermarket, as you won’t be able to leave the house for 14 days, starting from today and 10 days if you get a positive result.

If you’ve got kids, you need to email the school now, so they can sort out sending the kids from the bubble home / telling them not to come in.

Track and trace should be in touch tomorrow.

@Moomin - Ignore him. Your priorities should actually be Vitamin C, Vitamin D and alcohol. If money's tight, concentrate on the alcohol.

 

[Catfish Blues]

Good news that. A completely ridiculous idea to close people's place of exercise. The clocks change on Saturday night and it's dark at about ten to 5. We need gyms open during the winter

Apparently they were originally marked for closure because, while some of Hancock's aides had been researching the possible effects of gym closures, they noticed a large amount of cry arsing on the internet centred around Merseyside based forums, so they invented what they called the @Tea_drinker rule.

Children visiting soft play areas weren't so vocal, so got away with it at first, but have now been sacrificed on the altar of muscle building and calorie burning.

 

[Catfish Blues]

Soz abar all the posts

 

[Azza]

You've literally got my name. Love it. A clone.

Making a multi with a username as your own name. Bold move I've got to say.

 

[Nymzee]

Making a multi with a username as your own name. Bold move I've got to say.

So obvious it's no longer obvious.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial Brazil volunteer dies, trial to continue

Brazilian health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University had died but added that the trial would continue.

www.reuters.com

Was only 28 and died of complications from the virus. Wasnt given the actual vaccine just a placebo.

Funny how a healthy 28 yr old dies of the virus yet this government only wants to vaccinate the elderly and those with health problems...

 

[Catfish Blues]

That is something that makes me curious sure because there is plenty of evidence of it being a real thing. Not really something you can talk about on here though without being accused of calling covid a hoax lol

False positives exist, as do false negatives.

False positives are less than 5 in a 1000, probably quite a bit less than 5 in a 1000. We know this because, since there's been mass testing in the UK, the lowest positivity rate has been about 0.5% or about 5 in a 1000. So, by definition, if all those tests were false positives ( very unlikely ), then that's the maximum false positive rate.

It's not quite as simple as that, because as infections increase, the positivity rate will increase, so there'll be more virus in the labs, possibly leading to more cross contamination of samples, leading to more false positives, but that's unlikely to be statistically significant.

False negatives are likely running at about 20%. We know this because if you test a suspected infected person twice at roughly the same time ( within 24 hours ? ), trials have shown that about 1 in 5 tests come back as negative, with the other 4 coming back as positive.

This is why you'll occassionally see news about "important" people having had two consecutive negative results. If they only had one negative test, then you'd only be 80% confident the test result was correct. A second negative result basically means you're 96% certain that the results are accurate.

TL;DR ?

False negative results are far more common than false positive results.

 

[Kenshin]

That's bizarre. I'm not familiar with the Royal, but I can't understand why a nationwide policy which has been in place since mid June has only just been implemented ( unless the part of the building you're in is not actually part of the hospital itself ? ).

Face masks and coverings to be worn by all NHS hospital staff and visitors

All staff in hospitals in England will be provided with surgical masks which they will be expected to wear from 15 June. All visitors and outpatients must wear face coverings at all times.

www.gov.uk

Yeah we are the non clinical side of the trust so that's why it took so long to get the mask policy in place for us.

It was the 2 metre thing but now it's all the time unless you are by yourself in an office.

 

[Moomin]

@Moomin - Ignore him. Your priorities should actually be Vitamin C, Vitamin D and alcohol. If money's tight, concentrate on the alcohol.

First thing i ordered was some German beers. Hopefully arrive on Saturday.