Testing times - Covid in 2022

[Texaco Shirley]

Sorry to hear that Emma, presumably she will be released if she’s negative on days 5&6?

I saw my mum this afternoon and she is much better than she was on Wednesday. Still a bit of a cough but otherwise seems back to normal.

[Ella]

Hope they’re both ok, emma and Tex.

[Vegas]

Sorry emma. They chucked my mum out on Tuesday and she was still testing positive but she's had her 2 negatives now.

[Arrietty]

My poor mum has just messaged from hospital to say yesterday’s Covid test has just come back positive :cry: . I can’t say I’m massively surprised as they have had several cases and have stopped any visiting. At least she is in the right place to be properly looked after, I suppose.

[emma_p]

Oh no Arrietty, not your mum too! It does seem a bit inevitable in hospital at the moment :cry:

[Panda]

We cancelled our Mothers Day lunch with my parents last week as my dad had COVID and rescheduled to today (he has been negative since Tuesday). Mum has had a ‘cold’ for a week but tested negative on Friday. When they arrived today mum was coughing and sniffing, but they’ve run out of tests so she hasn’t tested since Friday. She used one of my tests just now and guess what? She’s positive. She went to a show last night (wearing a mask throughout).

They’ve just left and I’m going to take their dinners over to them shortly. Mum feels awful thinking she may have inadvertently infected others, and now us too. I think she should have stayed at home if she had symptoms but at the same time she was following the rules so didn’t actually do anything wrong.

No wonder it’s so bloody rife.

[Arrietty]

Everyone on my mum’s ward now has Covid and my mum is clearly delusional as she thinks all the staff are very bad actors and wants us to call the police! I spoke to an auxiliary and then my brother rang the ward who confirmed the patients all have covid but seemed to think it was all in hand. She even threatened to change her will! It’s so out of character for her but it is apparently reasonably common in elderly Covid patients. Still a worry though.

[overthehill]

Mum feels awful thinking she may have inadvertently infected others, and now us too. I think she should have stayed at home if she had symptoms but at the same time she was following the rules so didn’t actually do anything wrong.

No wonder it’s so bloody rife.

I'm still testing positive with no symptoms, while poor R is still really under the weather and still testing negative. I would never have guessed there was anything wrong at all, if we hadn't done a second test after getting back from the UK, on the basis that R was clearly ill. I spoke to my 90-year-old aunt yesterday. She told me that she tested positive on the morning of her birthday party but "since it would have been really inconvenient to cancel 22 people", she said nothing and went anyway. :ella:

So, yeah. No wonder.

[Arrietty]

Dammit, now I can see the faintest of faint lines on the LFT I took first thing this morning :(

[Ella]

FFS, all these people!

I don’t think you’re supposed to take anything from them hours after testing, are you? Anybody who’s not already swabbing their throat should, even if the test doesn’t say to.

[Arrietty]

No, but I’ll take one before bed so I should know for sure. Full tonsil and nostril poking, something to look forward to :)

[Texaco Shirley]

FFS, all these people!

I don’t think you’re supposed to take anything from them hours after testing, are you? Anybody who’s not already swabbing their throat should, even if the test doesn’t say to.

You’re not but I had a few like that before testing strongly positive.

[Arrietty]

Tested again and looked at precisely 30 minutes and it was negative, not a hint of a shadow. I'm not testing again!

[speedy gonzalez]

Symptom list updated - finally. Except the majority of people can't check unless they pay now.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavir ... -symptoms/

[Ella]

This is madness (bold mine).

What to do if you have symptoms

Try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people if you have symptoms of COVID-19 and either:

you have a high temperature
you do not feel well enough to go to work or do your normal activities.

[speedy gonzalez]

There's also discussion of stopping mask wearing in non clinical areas of the hospital where I work which I'm not keen on. Especially as they tweeted out about members of the public should still wear them in enclosed spaces(not just the hospital).
I can see some areas probably don't have much contact and there may also be some where they're in and out. However my area they can spend all day in.
I have a poster ready saying that it's still encouraged.

[Kleio]

£49 for a PCR test!

[Ella]

Woah, where does it say that? Way to get those numbers down.

[Kleio]

Woah, where does it say that? Way to get those numbers down.

I’m just trying to find it myself. A friend of mine (who has covid) was trying to book her husband for a test and that’s what it came up with.

[Kleio]

In Boots it’s £79.