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We are seeing a huge increase here too - we have one daughter off school with it (she has had it once just before Christmas) and several of her friends at school have it too. One of their other friends is desperately hoping she doesn't get it as she is meant to be going on a family holiday to Mauritius next week 😐
Weirdly at home the rest of us haven't got it (yet) - that's me (never had it), my wife (had it before Christmas) and our other daughter (who is a twin) who has never had it either.
Just heard this morning that one of my employees has got it as well as members of her family too.
Three of our test site crew have tested positive on three days. One operative, one security and one supervisor and covid Marshal. He has had a week off with no pay due to a non covid illness and as this is his third covid bout he's getting no pay for that either. He's pretty distraught.
Next week the test programme ends so he was really hoping to get a last couple of rotations in...
Covid is over - Had our last SPI-M this morning. Also triple jabbed and now triple infected. Day five, positive again. One colleague is still positive at day 10. Admissions are rising at a rate slower than cases thanks to boosting. See how that pans out in the next few weeks.
Symptoms have been upper respiratory tract, but sore chest. Little temperature. Lots of aches everywhere. No )more than usual) brain fog. Massive fatigue though. Of course I have no smell, but little taste now as well.
And of course, like two years ago, I’m still looking at covid treatments. None of which I can access at the moment.
A lot of those in hospital are there with covid but not because of it,hopefully this warm spell might help to slow the infection rate down
Source?
7 days from testing positive and wouldn't know I'd even had it tbh.
One colleague is still positive at day 10
My girlfriends mother was the same, maybe even longer. Her husband fortunately had been in hospital getting his routine antib's for his COPD/Pseudomonas, but then they wanted to send him home despite going back to a house with a positive case with strong symptoms. He was basically told to go home and the staff were really forceful about sending him home. When it was questioned they basically said 'not our problem, you have your vaccines'. He's not tested positive, yet. Pretty sure if he gets it, he dies.
I'm getting a lot of texts about getting my booster. I have had 2 jabs, and then got covid over Christmas. Can't seem to find any info on when I can get my booster after having covid.
28 days
Email from school, they appear to have circa 30 staff off (about a 1/3 i think). Sounds like Year 9 are getting sent home next week.
I'm on holiday this week after working like a dog for the last two years. Got called today asking me to postpone my time off to come in and cover for the usual sicknotes who are feeling a bit poorly. Get tae ****...
My new boss went down with it yesterday, he's in a really rough state apparently. Has been taken to hospital for observations according to his partner. Thankfully I don't usually see him during the normal working day so I'm not a contact of his but we all now have to take a test every morning before going to work.
A lot of those in hospital are there with covid but not because of it,hopefully this warm spell might help to slow the infection rate down
Source?
"He said that while more than 12,000 people in English hospitals are currently Covid-positive, the NHS estimates that almost 60% have not been admitted because of coronavirus, but are instead in hospital for another reason."
It is generally accepted that the flu season ends in March in the UK. It is reasonable to assume that the warm weather will have a similar affect on Covid19.....more open windows, more sitting outside, more fresh fruit, more vitamin D, more virus exposure to ultraviolet light, more exercise, etc etc
Two of my virtual team of six have just reported positive….. I’m negative yet suspicious I have an LTF avoiding strain 🙂
No, we haven’t been together for three weeks.
I’m on holiday this week after working like a dog for the last two years. Got called today asking me to postpone my time off to come in and cover for the usual sicknotes who are feeling a bit poorly. Get tae ****…
never answer your phone when on holiday...
never answer your phone when on holiday…
They may have just listened to the voicemail?
It's certainly been closer than ever to me with close family now positive and my son's childminder - he was there all day yesterday and she tested positive last night after feeling rough late afternoon, so I expect after seeing close family when they may have been infected plus my son's childminder it's a matter of when, not if. I've told all I've been in contact with since just so they can test and have a heads up. It's thoroughly messed up stuff we wanted to do over the next week or so but that's life, could be much worse.
I tested positive for 14 days when I got it at the beginning March. Not really symptomatic after about 4-5 days apart from a residual fatigue
Case rates in the Western Isles and the Scottish Highlands are through the roof. I’d hypothesised previously that areas that had escaped high infection rates in waves 1 and 2 were being hardest hit as the virus was finding more targets. I’m not sure that should still hold true given vaccination rates and newer strains, but it might still have some validity.
EVERYONE I know, or see on here seems to have it worse and longer lasting than me
I'm an infant pneumonia sufferer, an annual bronchitis sufferer until my 20's, a heavy smoker, a borderline alcoholic, I catch (and suffer from) common colds more than most people, I'm not vaxxed, yet Covid seems to hardly touch me.
I'm bemused - as much as this may seem like a troll, I really don't understand it. My wife and I have exactly the same strain, had similar symptoms at the same time - we hugged and kissed prior to and during +ve tests. She's still rough (but -ve) 5 days after I had no residual symptoms whatsoever.
I'd be interested to know why
I'm going for a bike ride in the morning
Luck? Let’s hope it keeps going your way.
The effect on each person seems to be completely random. Some folk have it without knowing - which is why testing/mask wearing etc has been so important, as they can still pass it on.
So at day 5 of the Nevill household infection, 6 yo daughter and me still getting a line, 4yov daughter and wife showed clear. I feel hard don't by... And surprised as I'm feeling much better (just the occasional/minor edge l wave of symptoms) but wife still suffering! I reckon we've had a stinker of s cold at the same time ...I had the cold 10 days before the first positive lat flow, now free of most symptoms but still positive, wife still suffering with cold but free of covid. That's my theory.
I'd just started feeling human again after kidney stones when today I tested positive.
I’m an infant pneumonia sufferer, an annual bronchitis sufferer until my 20’s, a heavy smoker, a borderline alcoholic, I catch (and suffer from) common colds more than most people, I’m not vaxxed, yet Covid seems to hardly touch me.
Maybe your lungs are deemed unfit for habitation, even by Covid. It's the respiratory equivalent of a 'hostile environment' for migrating viruses.
I'm not even joking:
https://ebm.bmj.com/content/26/6/279
Both me and Mrs K have a knockout malaise – very low energy, headache and dry mouth yet are testing negative. I’ve had this twice recently after which it seems to take me two weeks to recover, I’ve no idea what it is or whether the length of the recovery has been instigated by Covid.
We've had something like this on and off since Christmas. My wife's been knocked flat for about 3 weeks, even when one of my kids tested positive (along with most of his school bus) none of the rest of the family did.
Rates are shooting up again in Queensland now that everyone has forgotten about it. Probably not helped by all the flood emergencies causing lots of people to intermingle more than usual. As autumn approaches here flu season is on its way, so we'll see how things go.
My youngest has a small class of 16 ... but only 3 attending at the moment. Not helped by two anti-vax Covid+ parents sending their kid on school camp last week.
Does anyone know if this channel on YouTube is officially sanctioned by the BMJ? Either way the content is interesting but obviously if it is an official channel (for the BMJ) then the implications are far more significant.
Not that interesting, six month old story, sort of thing that appealed to trolls bitd, no response from FDA or the company I could find, did find this though;
"It's all this sort of vague kind of hand waving; I have no idea whether any of this is true, nor do you," Paul Offit, MD, of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and a member of the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, told MedPage Today.
"That The BMJ published it doesn't make it any more true," Offit, who formerly sat on CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, added. "If this whistleblower believes that they have a whistle to blow, then blow it. And then let's have the company respond."
Yeah it's a bit like that Hunter Biden lap top story really.....
In November 2021, The BMJ published a piece by Thacker alleging there has been "poor practice" at Ventavia, one of the companies involved in the phase III evaluation trials of the Pfizer vaccine.[19]
The report was enthusiastically embraced by anti-vaccination activists. Questioning Thacker's work in Science-Based Medicine, David Gorski wrote that his article presented facts without necessary context to misleading effect, playing up the seriousness of the noted problems.[20]
Some experts have expressed skepticism over the allegations made in the report. Prominent vaccination expert Paul Offit has criticized the issues outlined in the report as being vague and has cautioned against assuming the claims made in it are true.[21]
We must have done this one already in this thread, no? I definitely read about it before somewhere. Someone with the patience do a forum search to stop us treading over old ground.
Anyway, here's a link to a long careful look at the story the BMJ published. I think it's by one of the guys kilo is referencing:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-heck-happened-to-the-bmj/
Wife has had covid since yesterday (strong line when she's tested - teacher so probably got it Mon / Tue). I've tested negative three times now, but feel like a I have a slight cold. Our 1 year old is also sick (runny nose, can't sleep, puked last night) but also has tested negative.
I guess me and the baby could just have the same cold, but seems a coincidence. Trying to decide if it's still a good idea to go for my bike ride tomorrow morning.
I thought lateral flow tests are fairly accurate right? Esp if you do three of them?
Bloody hell, i've just submitted to present a poster at a BMJ conference ... should I retract it now?
Na.
@Ewan - we had a similar experience. Also have colleagues with colds the last few weeks that have repeatedly tested negative. Others go a couple of days negative and then test positive...maybe do another test in the morning before your ride?
@Ewan Possibly still a bit early. My wife tested positive on the Thursday. We tried to be as socially distant in the house as possible. Started to feel a slight cold on the Sunday and was mild cold on Monday. Still tested negative. Tested positive Tuesday morning. Tested negative Wednesday morning. Positive PCR test on Wednesday afternoon. Been testing positive since then although the line was very faint today. Expecting to be negative tomorrow morning. So, could easily be another day or two before you test positive but it does sound like you probably do have it.
Take out the 1000 patients from the analysis. Do you think vaccine efficacy will fall far from the reported 95%? Forget FDA inspections, companies carry out their own and these will be far more rigorous. Sadly fraud by contract research organisations (CROs) is not unknown. It’s rare, but does turn up. It varies from poor records and a bit of incompetence (e.g. wrong treatment given), to fabricating patients who simply didn’t exist!
But the data from the 40k patients really wont move the safety or efficacy needles far if you include the 39k not recruited by that company.
Still positive and sore throat and chest today… LF test line shows immediately and just gets stronger with time 😷
Ordered an LFT kit on the gov site on Tuesday 22nd around 1300, but no delivery slots available for me today in Ingerland, the kindom of the free Covid variants... While ONS reckon there are ~1 million actual positives in the UK over the past week (1 in ~16 for most countries, 1 in 11 in Scotland).
Has Boris quietly declared Covid over a week earlier than April Fools Day end of free tests for most in his Tory stronghold?
I saw on the bbc that *one* LFT from boots costs £5.99. Can't see anyone doing that come 1st April.
I saw on the bbc that *one* LFT from boots costs £5.99. Can’t see anyone doing that come 1st April.
Almost like that's the idea...
I saw on the bbc that *one* LFT from boots costs £5.99. Can’t see anyone doing that come 1st April.
We were paying for them anyway, through taxes. Test and trace cost 15 billion quid last year. Surely by this point that money is better spent on fixing the NHS backlog. The fact you can still buy them is good enough at this point I think. £5.99 for peace of mind before seeing vulnerable relatives or something isn't exactly a deal-breaker is it? But for the vast majority who a rapid test has no benefit to they now aren't left continuing to have to pay for them.
£24 to test a family of four, before going to see grandparents or immunosuppressed relatives, might be peanuts to you. That isn't the case for for everyone.
Yeah - i'm in that position. 18 quid every time we want to go and see my mum. Super. Tory ****s.
Buy some nasal swabs (q-tips), swab everyone separately, mix and extract each swab into one fluid, then use one LF test. You won't visit if one of you is positive. You don't need to know who it is.
Well it's my birthday today and I've woken up to a positive test. Yay.
Had it for my birthday last year too.
Was kind of expecting it though as its been slowly taking it the office.
That said, legally I can still go to the pub and meet all my fiends for the mean I had planned so maybe I'll just go...
Nb not that it makes a huge difference but 1 lft from boots is £2 and a pack of 5, £9.80
Is anyone else in the same boat as me?
I’ve been feeling pretty poor for the last 3-4 weeks – started off with a temperature, cough, sore chest, achy limbs, sore head etc. Sounds like textbook Covid yet I’ve done about 20000 lateral flow test and been constantly negative. I’ve had all three vaccines and don’t think I’ve had Covid before now.
I seem to go through waves of thinking I’m feeling better, doing some minor activity and then being completely floored again the next day – same symptoms as always. I went out for a slow bike ride on Saturday and my lungs were burning so badly I turned back after 1km.
If I go for a stroll with the dog, the next day my legs feel like I’ve run a marathon the previous day. It feels like I’m unable to recover properly. Even carrying some food shopping up the stairs meant my arms felt like I’d been to the gym the next day.
Within my office of 4 – all of us are feeling the exact same way and all testing negative.
Reminds me of my ~4 week proper flu last October after visiting north Wales by train.
Thankfully no lurgy came back with me last week from the same trip!