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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Apparently the Swiss pharma concern Roche has developed a test which proves if you ever had Corona. It is supposed to be licensed on Monday (not sure if Switzerland or world wide or EU).
100% accuracy (5 1/2 thousand samples) of the people that had it, 0.2% false positives.

Of course, they won't test all 6 billion people immediately, but over time I hope that 1st everyone can be tested who is on the front lines, and then everyone.
It's not quite a vaccine, but I think it is a good step to some normality.


Edit: Just reading it again, it's a word wide roll out with 10s of millions of test available each months.
 
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Maybe its a weekend reporting thing, although previous Saturday numbers, unlike the Sunday numbers, usually show a continued trend rather than a dip.

Yesterday's numbers for Spain;

I'm loathe to say only xxx, it should never be only...… 164 deaths registered to Covid. This last week has seen numbers in the 200's for the first time since whenever, and now one in the 100's.
 
larmen said:
Apparently the Swiss pharma concern Roche has developed a test which proves if you ever had Corona. It is supposed to be licensed on Monday (not sure if Switzerland or world wide or EU).
100% accuracy (5 1/2 thousand samples) of the people that had it, 0.2% false positives.

Of course, they won't test all 6 billion people immediately, but over time I hope that 1st everyone can be tested who is on the front lines, and then everyone.
It's not quite a vaccine, but I think it is a good step to some normality.


Edit: Just reading it again, it's a word wide roll out with 10s of millions of test available each months.
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Only really useful if they find that people who have had it have immunity for a while. If they don't, it's pointless, and a waste of money.
 
murphthemog said:
Only really useful if they find that people who have had it have immunity for a while. If they don't, it's pointless, and a waste of money.
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Of course. But so far all people with a 2nd infection were in South Korea only which makes me think that the testing they do might not be accurate. Everywhere else there hasn’t been any reinfection.
 
murphthemog said:
Only really useful if they find that people who have had it have immunity for a while. If they don't, it's pointless, and a waste of money.
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Agreed. It's too early to know but to come out of this we really need both a vaccine, and to know what immunity and for how long having the disease provides.
 
larmen said:
Of course. But so far all people with a 2nd infection were in South Korea only which makes me think that the testing they do might not be accurate. Everywhere else there hasn’t been any reinfection.
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I think I read that those 2nd positives were false positives due to dead lung tissue....
General consensus now is that there is immunity for a period of time...how long is another matter
 
murphthemog said:
Only really useful if they find that people who have had it have immunity for a while. If they don't, it's pointless, and a waste of money.
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Somewhere , I read recently that the reports from China that some had been infected a second time, were not accurate. iOW it seems optimistic that immunity does last for quite some while.
So, this could be good news.
 
larmen said:
Of course. But so far all people with a 2nd infection were in South Korea only which makes me think that the testing they do might not be accurate. Everywhere else there hasn’t been any reinfection.
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There was a story on BBC News that they were false positives. Something to do with damaged lung tissue causing a positive test when they were actually negative.
 
ColchesterFC said:
There was a story on BBC News that they were false positives. Something to do with damaged lung tissue causing a positive test when they were actually negative.
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It was reported a day or so ago on the Sky News app - scientists confirm you cannot be reinfected, and that the “reinfections” in South Korea were false positives.

I don’t think the story was widely reported elsewhere, and certainly not by the BBC, because it is a good news story. They don’t like positivity, the BBC.........
 
Billysboots said:
It was reported a day or so ago on the Sky News app - scientists confirm you cannot be reinfected, and that the “reinfections” in South Korea were false positives.

I don’t think the story was widely reported elsewhere, and certainly not by the BBC, because it is a good news story. They don’t like positivity, the BBC.........
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It was reported today as part of their live text updates and is still one of the summary headlines on that page but let's not let the facts get in the way of your obvious dislike of the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52519440
 
ColchesterFC said:
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It was reported today as part of their live text updates and is still one of the summary headlines on that page but let's not let the facts get in the way of your obvious dislike of the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52519440
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Get out of bed the wrong side? :rolleyes:

I saw the article a day or so ago. Please accept my heartfelt apologies for not catching it on every news platform, at least 24 hours after it was first reported elsewhere.

Strewth.
 
Fish said:
Well I hope it’s quite on the roads tomorrow, I’ve got 59 tests to collect from NHS staff who are self isolating at home around Nottinghamshire.

Strict collection, handling & scanning procedures at point of collection before returning them all to Birmingham.

Bit scary knowing I could be collecting from people who will have it, but as long as I follow the safety guidelines, I’ll be ok ?
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Well it was quiet on the roads, but I’ve told them I’m not doing it again out of that Birmingham Royal Mail depot as they’re shooting from the hip.

There’s no man-management of procedures in place, and if there are, they’re not communicated well enough, you just fumble your way through the day, working out the app as you go along, then finding missing numbers off the manifests, and all sorts of issues that become very time consuming.

Then couple that with knocking Joe Bloggs door and find they’re still in bed, haven’t got the tests ready, haven’t got the right number as they’ve messed some up, it’s a nightmare!

But I still smashed it inside 8hrs, and that’s with an hour travelling each end to start & finish in Nottingham Before unloading back in Birmingham, covering over 200 miles.

Apparently they used City Sprint first which was an epic fail, but I’ve worked bloody hard today, then had some jobsworth ring me up after I’d left saying I’d left the sack of 60 tests with the wrong person, how would I bloody know, I just got back and was met by an employee who took them off me, they’ve no firm procedures to follow, no verbal instruction or written guidance, so I’ve told them I won’t be back, unless they bring other depots on board, as Birmingham is a shambles.

I’m busy enough without having to risk my health to help an unorganized shambles like that and then get vented at!

Rant over......,
 
The lockdown and working from home is taking its toll and I’m struggling with my depression.
Can’t get to my caravan either to escape from things.
 
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