Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

Why would you encourage people not to get tested if they are jabbed?

The current public health guidance is isolate and test if you have symptoms.

People who are vaccinated are still contracting the virus. I was reading another forum about peoples covid experiences after vaccinations and covid is appearing differently in everyone some with mild symptoms and others with a flu type of illness and bedridden and that can go on for a week or two or more.

Why would you encourage people not to get tested if they have symptoms?

Testing is the responsible thing to do to rule covid in or out one way or another.

But he wasn't upfront. He said he was positive and couldn't travel

The immediate reaction to this story is the tests are fake and he's getting special treatment and getting the result he wants to go to cop26.

My point was there's probably more to it than that. And not everything involving a politician is a scandal.

I totally agree with you on the last point. It hasn't been communicated well though.

Genuine question...how is the general accuracy of the tests determined?

If he tested positive yesterday would that positive case be counted in today's numbers even though he has now tested negative?

Apparently they've denotified the case. I don't know why they didn't re-test before notifying the case if there was doubt.

Interesting what are the stats on it?

A few thousand no doubt to send him to Glasgow and back.

So the testing is unreliable and the vaccinations are temporary.

good to know.

Accuracy is represented as a measure of specificity and sensitivity.

Specificity is how good the test is at detecting the virus and not reacting to anything else. As the test uses genetic material specific to sars-CoV-2, the specificity of the test is about 99%.

Sensitivity is how good the test is at detecting the the virus when it is present, even at a low viral load. PCR is very good at detecting the virus in pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic people.

The accuracy of a test is also highly dependent on how good the sample is. You need to collect a good quality swab. If you don't, anything after that is pointless. False negatives can occur if the sample was not collected correctly or compromised.

Thanks - comprehensive answer!

Ever since my kids first test ive had no faith in the testing.

The alcohol wipe they used to clean his nose went further and for twice the time up the nose than the swap, and his throat wasnt swabbed.

Had it come back positive i would have laughed.

Ive heard of many positives that dont make sense since and negatives with symptoms of complete taste and smell gone.

Ive no faith in the testing. Zero.

Cillian de Gascun has already stated on his twitter account way back in Sept 2020 that false positives range between 1 and 3%. Work it out for yourselves

He should never have been woken that time in the convention center.