Covid 19 Part XXIII-33,444 in ROI(1,792 deaths) 9,541 in NI(577 deaths)(22/09)Read OP

normanoffside wrote: »

She was on BBC Question time last week as well.

The BBC have a nut job or two on everynight

ACitizenErased wrote:

Are you familiar with using the assay that the NVRL uses? If not then we're just as clueless as each other, to be fair.

I think they use a Roche platform but im not sure. I think the poster mandrake might know.

I wouldnt say im clueless, I do perform PCR as part of my job, although not for covid testing.

Martina1991 wrote: »

Yes of course you should.

But people arent sterile. We're hosts to millions of bacteria and viruses that can/may cause interference.

People are also human, and when racks of identical small tubes are side by side theres always possibilities of things like cross contaminants or human error.

There are safety procedures and checks in place to prevent all that but my point is, nothing will be 100% perfect every time.

I didn't want to mention cross continamation.
But going by that, saying the false positive is based on all tests is incorrect so. It's based on the tests with a positive result.
And which was already pointed out, a positive result can't distinguish if you're just over the infection or presymptomatic. So as you say, people should still isolate as they could still be infections or become infections.

caveat emptor wrote: »

School outbreaks increasing.

https://twitter.com/DeeGilhawley/status/1308512102542438406?s=20

I spotted 2 open clusters linked to public houses in the table on that tweet, there had been 5 closed clusters for a long time in the table.

Has anybody noticed rte have stopped their daily push notifications of cases?
Or is it just me

declanflynn wrote: »

The BBC have a nut job or two on everynight

The only chance Ryan would have of appearing on question time would be if he discovered a cure for Covid 19.

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Sorry I forgot you showed us your degree in COVID-19 testing...

Really am baffled by the attitude you’ve grown in the last few weeks on here. Informative posting and really decent analysis of numbers has turned into absolute showmanship and downright rudeness to anyone who may have a different view.

You’re telling posters to ignore people or “not bother” interacting because their views might be different or they hold them strongly. Sarcastically talking about degrees in testing after that poster said we’re not all equal in terms of knowledge, who was standing up for someone who does PCR testing as part of their job, and has been an absolute wealth of knowledge for those of us that don’t know about PCR testing.

Plenty of assumed information, anecdotal information, second hand information - don’t get me wrong here, all valuable in their own right - posted by you here over the last couple of months. And yet, when anyone else does similar, you jump down their throats for doing the exact same.

You can’t even wonder aloud here anymore about something unlikely but plausible without fear of being labelled a doom monger.

Tonight you posted a link that was disputed by many, right or wrong, and you’ve fought and fought it, even when the expert weighs in you just dismiss it as “ah sure neither of us know what we’re talking about”.

It’d be great to just have a discussion here tbh without all the extra attitude and snide comments.

bpb101 wrote: »

Has anybody noticed rte have stopped their daily push notifications of cases?
Or is it just me

I haven’t had them in the last few days, hoping they had stopped, but my wife is still getting them.

Deleted User wrote: »

Level 1 is fantasy. 2021.


Level 3 I would say over 100 per 100,000 with a decent percentage of community transmission.

Level 1 looks a fantasy alright, Sligo for example should be level 1 right now, had only 11 cases the last 2 weeks and no covid case in Sligo Hospital.