I posted on here a few weeks back that I was going to try my luck and go for the booster even though I'm under 50 on the basis of being asthmatic and having a chronic cough. It's not classed as severe so I don't think I'm eligible really. I had to reschedule to today due to having a cold on the original date, but they gave me it with barely any questions asked, yay!
How reliable are the LFTs that just do a nose swab? We've just had something. I tested negative twice. It wasn't much of an illness but it stayed for about 3 weeks. After the first few nose, throat, sneeze days we had a bit of a cough, poor sleep, headaches, assorted aches, no energy and funny smells in the nose (between us, we didn't both have them all).
@nutcutlet, I read yesterday that the tests have a use-by date on them and that after that the liquid starts to evaporate until there's not enough left for the test to work. They recommended that everyone checks their test kits as a lot of people have kept them since the charges came in.
We found that the original NHS tests from the chemists didn't seem to work as well as the ones supplied to OH before his op. The former, made in China of course, contained hardly any liquid at all whereas there was much more liquid in the phials in the latter.
Apologies, I didn't mean to be so terse - got distracted! My brother had classic symptoms some time ago but was consistently testing negative. My sister had read some research on the accuracy of the nose-only versus nose and throat and suggested he try swabbing his throat as well - bingo! Positive. I have no idea what she'd read, but she's a doctor and was working in a vaccine centre at the time so I figured she had her finger somewhat on the pulse. That said, I've known lots of people test +ve on the nose-only ones, so they're not completely useless.
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@nutcutlet, I read yesterday that the tests have a use-by date on them and that after that the liquid starts to evaporate until there's not enough left for the test to work. They recommended that everyone checks their test kits as a lot of people have kept them since the charges came in.
We found that the original NHS tests from the chemists didn't seem to work as well as the ones supplied to OH before his op. The former, made in China of course, contained hardly any liquid at all whereas there was much more liquid in the phials in the latter.
I'd heard that @Lizzie27 and checked and discarded the old ones. I bought these just before the event, there was plenty of fluid
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We found that the original NHS tests from the chemists didn't seem to work as well as the ones supplied to OH before his op. The former, made in China of course, contained hardly any liquid at all whereas there was much more liquid in the phials in the latter.
My brother had classic symptoms some time ago but was consistently testing negative. My sister had read some research on the accuracy of the nose-only versus nose and throat and suggested he try swabbing his throat as well - bingo! Positive. I have no idea what she'd read, but she's a doctor and was working in a vaccine centre at the time so I figured she had her finger somewhat on the pulse.
That said, I've known lots of people test +ve on the nose-only ones, so they're not completely useless.
In the sticks near Peterborough
False negative rate, 20-60%.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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In the sticks near Peterborough
it is very good if it tells you, you are +ve., but pretty hopeless if it tells you, you are -ve.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border