Do people still test for covid?

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I’m currently sick with what I am guessing is a pretty rotten cold.

I had covid once and it completely floored me for 2 weeks, this isn’t like that… this started with a horrendous earache for 3 days and now I’m sneezing, coughing, tap like nose and head and sinus pain enough to take meds and I hate taking pills.

My germ infested child had a cough a few weeks ago and I was around (not close proximity) to someone who had Covid and didn’t know.

So I’m wondering do people still test?

My eldest sibling works for the NHS and they now have to go in with covid unless of course they’re bedridden….It confuses me how we went from “don’t go out, don’t mix, don’t see your loved ones, don’t breathe near anyone” to… “do what you want, even if you work with the sick and elderly”…..

Anyway, that’s all.

Not here

Nope not for over 2 years

OH is on permanent chemotherapy and ECV due to that and his blood cancer.

When DS comes home for occasional weekends, he tests a couple of times before leaving. He's out and about at work, socialising, etc., and tests and takes precautions in the few days ahead, to protect OH.

I test quite regularly, especially if I've been somewhere busy/enclosed, like a GP waiting room or pharmacy or dentists, or busy shops, and we try to use different bathrooms and sit apart for a couple of days until I've had a couple of days of negative tests.

After my comment I did actually test this week when I had what I assumed was a rotten cold as I was going to a funeral. Negative and as I felt better I went. Felt the right thing to do due to the number of elderly people who are generally at funerals

No, not for years. What would be the point, given that we would still carry on completely as normal?

Yes, if the occasion requires it. I am volunteering at a fundraising event this weekend where there will be a lot of vulnerable people, and I have just started a rotten cold, so I tested this morning.

I test but am freelance and most of the companies I work for would expect me in unless I was actually ill with it. Dh tests too as he would be expected to work from home until testing negative.

It sounds like Covid to me but please be alert for any signs of this new pneumonia that’s spreading in China and other places. I would anticipate we’ll start hearing a lot more about it in the coming weeks as it impacts the UK, it’s likely already here too. Hearing lots of mixed reports about it so please check out symptoms of pneumonia, especially in young children too. Hope you are better soon OP!

I did when I suspected covid in September. Just so I could avoid going to public indoor places and potentially just passing it onto someone vulnerable.

We all had the usual winter colds recently and tested. But only out of interest really and to use up tests that have been kicking about the house and are going out of date soon - and probably dont work! How do you get new tests and they just sold at chemists? I don't think I would buy tests now.

So far dh, ds(19) and I have never, knowingly, had it. Which leaves me with a small concern, not something I think about regularly, how it would impact us.

This thread is reassuring. Most other threads are full of people saying it's just a cold, carry on as normal, what a bunch of sheep etc. It's good to know there are others out there who want to protect others, such as my vulnerable daughter, and who test so that, even though legally they could carry on as normal, they wouldn't if they were positive. Thank you