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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
(Post 33883656)
One a day should really be the maximum (and that's what I'm on). Even those working at Porton Down are on one a day and let off testing on Saturdays.
As a complete aside she has progressed to the third round for a JOB with a company whose product you have been intimately familiar with this past year or more, so keep those fingers crossed. |
Originally Posted by VickiSoCal
(Post 33883932)
As a complete aside she has progressed to the third round for a JOB with a company whose product you have been intimately familiar with this past year or more, so keep those fingers crossed.
Just kidding, congrats to her. Hope it's not in Swindon or Bracknell or wherever it was that she had to spend her summer at! |
Originally Posted by alex67500
(Post 33883824)
Not sure if the source is correct but I saw this graph about Delta vs Omicron in France, which shows that Omicron has flared massively, but that Delta cases aren't actually waning. So whilst Omicron is responsible for a large percentage of cases, Delta is still there in absolute terms. Do the residents here have data for the UK which would point to the same trends?
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Originally Posted by 13901
(Post 33883998)
Microsoft Teams? :D
Just kidding, congrats to her. Hope it's not in Swindon or Bracknell or wherever it was that she had to spend her summer at! |
Originally Posted by Dan1113
(Post 33872703)
Is it ok to use those swabs in the throat even though it says not to?
Swabbing throat and nose 'boosts Covid detection in lateral flow tests' New data is being examined by ministers which could lead to advice on the use of LFTs being updated for tens of millions of users Using lateral flow tests to swab the throat and nose is more accurate than simply relying on nasal samples, senior health officials believe, as ministers consider updating advice for tens of millions of test users. The Telegraph understands ministers are examining data which shows that swabbing someone's throat as well as their nose - even with a kit designed just for the nose - is more likely to detect Covid-19 and can pick up evidence of the virus as much as a day earlier than simply relying on nose samples. Last week, Meaghan Kall, the UK Health Security Agency's lead epidemiologist on Covid-19, tweeted: "Top tip: you can use your 'nasal only' swab to swab your throat, if you want to up your chance of detection. "A small study has shown 4 of 5 people had more virus in throat than nose in the early phase (first 3 days) of omicron infection." However, the tweet was later removed amid concern in Government that the advice, which conflicts with instruction manuals accompanying many kits, could cause confusion. Another government scientific adviser said: "I know UKHSA had good data showing that nasal swabs were genuinely reliable and a good predictor and the throat swabs didn't add very much. But that was some time ago. "Personally I'm using the short [swab] and putting my fingers in my mouth and taking the throat and then the nose." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...al-flow-tests/ |
Any reccomendation for the cheapest Day 2 Test I'm not going to take anyway? Will only be in London for < 24 hours, but I'd like to stick to the official rules if possible.
Found some Click & Collect options for 5 GBP and 8 GBP, but none of them are available. Cheapest I got would be 15 GBP which appears quite expensive for a self test kit. |
Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
(Post 33884017)
It's just under 95% Omicron at the moment in England, 91% in Scotland, 97% in London. It will be 99% in London by about Tuesday. Sometimes these variants take a very long time to go, 500 cases of Alpha a day are still being found, though some of that is from travellers. But obviousy 500 cases over 165,000 isn't a lot.
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Originally Posted by delpiero223
(Post 33884380)
Any reccomendation for the cheapest Day 2 Test I'm not going to take anyway? Will only be in London for < 24 hours, but I'd like to stick to the official rules if possible.
Found some Click & Collect options for 5 GBP and 8 GBP, but none of them are available. Cheapest I got would be 15 GBP which appears quite expensive for a self test kit. |
All, or at least most of, the papers today are carrying the news that LFTs will no longer be provided for “free”.
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Originally Posted by 13901
(Post 33885288)
All, or at least most of, the papers today are carrying the news that LFTs will no longer be provided for “free”.
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Originally Posted by 13901
(Post 33885288)
All, or at least most of, the papers today are carrying the news that LFTs will no longer be provided for “free”.
End of free lateral flow tests as country told to live with Covid New plan could save billions as ministers expect six more years of virus Free lateral flow tests face the axe under plans for living with Covid which Boris Johnson will announce within weeks. More than £6 billion of public money has been spent on mass testing using the devices. The new system could mean free tests being provided only in high-risk settings such as care homes, hospitals and schools, and to people with symptoms. Contact tracing by NHS Test and Trace is also likely to be scaled back. A senior Whitehall source said: “I don’t think we are in a world where we can continue to hand out free lateral flow tests to everybody for evermore Paywalled. |
I'm sure Randox can give them a discount :D
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Daily data:
Cases 141,472 (151,663 last Sunday) Deaths 97 (73) People vaccinated up to and including 8 January 2022: First dose: 51,950,528 Second dose: 47,677,951 Booster: 35,499,486 The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now up 6.6% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 30.9%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 184.9 today. |
Originally Posted by DaveS
(Post 33886128)
Daily data:
Cases 141,472 (137,583 last Sunday) Deaths 97 (73) People vaccinated up to and including 8 January 2022: First dose: 51,950,528 Second dose: 47,677,951 Booster: 35,499,486 The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now up 6.6% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 30.9%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 184.9 today. |
Originally Posted by PxC
(Post 33886341)
SkyNews (and the gov site) are saying last Sunday was 151k and worldometer 148k
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