Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Bruce Wayne said:
Something I've been wondering a bit lately regarding the testing stats (the ratios seem broadly similar across countries so isn't directly related to any country's response or testing regime). It seems common for around 70-80% of all tests conducted to return a negative result. Now, presumably there's a reason why someone was tested in the first place, which seems in many instances to be developing coronavirus like symptoms, or being exposed to those who have them. In other words, they're not just testing any Boris, Matt, or Chris that asks for one. So my question is, if people are seemingly qualified to warrant a test, yet the test returns a negative result, what is it they do have?

I'm curious because there are obviously a great many people who are self-isolating with coronavirus like symptoms that have no idea if it was 'it' or not, so it would perhaps be useful to understand if x% of those who have been tested actually just had some other form of flu instead, or whatnot. @Sentinel. You're the man in the know with this stuff. Any ideas?
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That's an excellent question mate but as you and your good lady wife probably already know. Is we simply don't have the data. Pretty much everyone I know are basically just firefighting this.
 
Sentinel said:
That's an excellent question mate but as you and your good lady wife probably already know. Is we simply don't have the data. Pretty much everyone I know are basically just firefighting this.
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By firefighting you mean making educated guesses, right? I just see an awful lot of people 100% certain that they know the best way to tackle this, which seems somewhat optimistic to me.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Something I've been wondering a bit lately regarding the testing stats (the ratios seem broadly similar across countries so isn't directly related to any country's response or testing regime). It seems common for around 70-80% of all tests conducted to return a negative result. Now, presumably there's a reason why someone was tested in the first place, which seems in many instances to be developing coronavirus like symptoms, or being exposed to those who have them. In other words, they're not just testing any Boris, Matt, or Chris that asks for one. So my question is, if people are seemingly qualified to warrant a test, yet the test returns a negative result, what is it they do have?

I'm curious because there are obviously a great many people who are self-isolating with coronavirus like symptoms that have no idea if it was 'it' or not, so it would perhaps be useful to understand if x% of those who have been tested actually just had some other form of flu instead, or whatnot. @Sentinel. You're the man in the know with this stuff. Any ideas?
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That has been addressed in Ireland, I'm not sure if the same rules to get a test apply in UK, Basically you need a referral from your GP but as GP's are not taking walk in patients you have the hypochondriacs of Ireland calling the GP coughing down the phone claiming headache and exaggerating symptoms so they can get a test. Also long waiting times for a test mean people are recovered before they get tested, a friend of mine was on the waiting list for a test, he had a cough but nothing too bad then things started getting worse and he applied for a test, was in a bad way but by time he got tested he'd recovered and was symptom free for a few days. Still no results and he was tested last Thursday.
 
Tipp blue said:
That has been addressed in Ireland, I'm not sure if the same rules to get a test apply in UK, Basically you need a referral from your GP but as GP's are not taking walk in patients you have the hypochondriacs of Ireland calling the GP coughing down the phone claiming headache and exaggerating symptoms so they can get a test. Also long waiting times for a test mean people are recovered before they get tested, a friend of mine was on the waiting list for a test, he had a cough but nothing too bad then things started getting worse and he applied for a test, was in a bad way but by time he got tested he'd recovered and was symptom free for a few days. Still no results and he was tested last Thursday.
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Not an exact science huh?
 
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Pastor of Tampa church that held two large Sunday services arrested, jailed

Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne of The River at Tampa Bay Church was booked into a local jail on Monday on charges of unlawful assembly and violating Hillsborough County’s stay-at-home order. He posted bail 30 minutes later.
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Then this. Dear God, help us all.

“The Lord has helped us secure our congregation,” the pastor said. “We have brought in 13 machines that basically kill every virus in the place. If someone walks through the door, it kills everything on them. If they sneeze it shoots it down at a 100 mph. It’ll neutralize it in split-seconds.
 
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