what's the difference between the liquid in the nose only test and the nose and throat ones? if you really can't manage to do the throat can u just do the nose?
Some groups we meet with want us to do a LFT. Fair enough. Just because the virus is out of the news, it doesn't mean it's gone away . No more than Afghanistan is at peace because our attention has diverted to the Ukraine.
Cornwall hospital so stretched, people waiting many hours for ambulance, not many on ventilators but many filling the wards, more than at any time through the pandemic. Highest infection rates now and thousands of tourists in a week or two will tip it over the edge. We will still be staying in.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
There are so few care workers, all off with COVID now, that they are allowing people with COVID to care for the elderly with PPE, they say the risk is better than no care at all.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Weekly shop today. Masks no longer compulsory but many, including me, still wearing them and the trolley disinfector spray bar and hand disinfectant still going.
Local Easter hols start on the 9th of April but then Parisians will arrive ne masse when theirs start on the 23rd - staggered hols in France - so a prolonged period for passing on bugs just as Deltacrom will be maturing. Lovely.
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I've just got a new batch of lft. The last ones were up the nose jobs . This lot are nose and throat. Can anyone tell me how to stop or lessen the gagging reflex?
Not sure if this will help but if you do the test in front of a mirror, open wide and take a breath in, then your tongue flattens a bit so you can swab the right part without going too far.
We seem to have a large number of NHS off with COVID currently. Just an observation. Also, published data on numbers only represents those positive with a PCR, not positive by way of lateral flows, in most instances now so effectively under-recording’ compared to a few months ago.
The advice is not to do a nose swab on throat swab kits as false results may occur. No idea how true that is, but just something I read.
I’ve got 2 packets of LFT from the Gov.site, Nasal it’s says. We’ve never done any tests, only opened for youngest grandson who was paranoid staying here over Christmas in case he gave it to us, two nights running he tested, now the poor kid’s caught it for a 2nd time.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Highest infection rates now and thousands of tourists in a week or two will tip it over the edge.
We will still be staying in.
Local Easter hols start on the 9th of April but then Parisians will arrive ne masse when theirs start on the 23rd - staggered hols in France - so a prolonged period for passing on bugs just as Deltacrom will be maturing. Lovely.
The advice is not to do a nose swab on throat swab kits as false results may occur. No idea how true that is, but just something I read.
We’ve never done any tests, only opened for youngest grandson who was paranoid staying here over Christmas in case he gave it to us, two nights running he tested, now the poor kid’s caught it for a 2nd time.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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