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Original poster

Think DP has HAD coronavirus who to notify?

28 replies

Icantrememebrtheartist · 02/04/2020 16:20

Just been told by a family member that we must notify Public Health England so he can be swabbed and they will want to swab everyone he's been in contact with. Is this true?

Having a bit of a panic!

DP spent a couple of days feeling terrible with a temp and aches, at the end of feb, a few days later he lost all sense of taste and smell and his nose and eye sockets hurt and he put it down to sinusitis, his senses came back after three weeks. He had a very minor almost unnoticeable dry cough when he lost his senses. We didn't think he had it because he didn't have the cough, they spoke about at the end of Feb and the loss of senses wasn't added to the list of symptoms until recently.

I thought only patients and NHS were being swabbed at the moment.

OP posts:
awkwardbuttons · 02/04/2020 16:20

Nope not true.

LuluJakey1 · 02/04/2020 16:20

It isn't true.

VideographybyLouBloom · 02/04/2020 16:21

No. Loads of people think they've had it. Until tests are rolled out for the entire population no one actually knows. You isolate for the required 14 days and do nothing.

Marieo · 02/04/2020 16:21

No...if only.

SharonasCorona · 02/04/2020 16:22

I don’t think this is true. I called NHS 111 with suspected coronavirus symptoms (I’m convinced I had it).

They were polite but uninterested, said to stay home and that they have stopped testing people.

BudgieHammockBananaSmuggler · 02/04/2020 16:23

Ha ha ha ha ha (grim laugh). No

MayTheGodsBeEverInYourFavour · 02/04/2020 16:23

At this point, he'd probably need an antibody test, which (AFAIK) is still in development/testing. I imagine when a reliable test is available, the government/NHS/etc will publicise its availability & request people who think they've had CV to come forward to be tested.

Zilla1 · 02/04/2020 16:25

If you're based in the UK, OP then unless your family is the Royal Family or your family member is a Cabinet Minister then no. Testing and contact tracing would have been a sensible approach but not even all patients in acute or the primary or NHS front line are being tested. Not sure whether your family member is wrong or having a jest if they're based in the UK?

dementedpixie · 02/04/2020 16:26

They are talking mince. We dont even have tests for frontline staff so they wont be giving them to members of the public any time soon

Original poster
Icantrememebrtheartist · 02/04/2020 16:26

Thank you so much everyone.

We both already feel awful that if he did have it he continued to go to work, see family etc.

OP posts:
P1nkHeartLovesCake · 02/04/2020 16:26

No it’s not true....it sounds like some of the bullshit social media is currently spreading

Soubriquet · 02/04/2020 16:27

I wish

I would have been swabbed 2 weeks ago and would know for sure

SharonasCorona · 02/04/2020 16:28

We both already feel awful that if he did have it he continued to go to work, see family etc.

Well you don’t know if he has or hasn’t got it, so he needs to not go to women or see anyone.

NewYearNewJob123 · 02/04/2020 16:28

Nope. Like so much bollocks going around right now.

magoria · 02/04/2020 16:28

This will be why our stats are so low. They are doing minimal tests. They don't have a scooby about the true number of infected people.

Vaginandtonic · 02/04/2020 16:30

Your family need to get with the programme - what they are saying is so 'it's-February-2020-and-ive-recently-returned-from-Northern-Italy'Grin

RedMoonRising · 02/04/2020 16:32

You could mention your concerns to anyone he / you may have passed it on to

blueluce85 · 02/04/2020 17:19

You don't have to notify but there's a great app where you can report daily whether you feel fine or are symptomatic. It helps them gather data

Help slow the spread of #COVID19 and identify at risk cases sooner by self-reporting your symptoms daily, even if you feel well 🙏🏼. Download the app covid.joinzoe.com/

Pumpkinpie1 · 02/04/2020 17:55

I don’t think this government actually wants to test .To do would be to admit the true scale of the pandemic & how they are failing to manage it
Better for them to procrastinate & hide before the army of illequipted volunteers & core workers
Their incompetence is only matched by their arrogance

Casino218 · 02/04/2020 18:00

So have we. I'm a nurse and I can't get a bloody test so no hope love!

Cheerbear23 · 02/04/2020 18:13

We wonder whether my husband had corona virus in January. He’s usually strong as an Ox, but he lost all appetite, slept all day and night, fever, aching and coughing. It took him a few weeks to get back to feeling human again. The only thing that makes me hesitate is, none of us caught if off him. We put it down to flu at the time.

welldonejean · 02/04/2020 20:32

No, they can’t even test the NHS workers who need testing

welldonejean · 02/04/2020 20:34

I’m another one who thinks the reluctance in testing is also because the numbers will e huge and prove that we should have been in a lock down a month before

fiftiesmum · 02/04/2020 20:40

Trouble is once some people knew they were over it and possibly immune they would not longer be as concerned about not touching people and surfaces and spreading it

SharonasCorona · 02/04/2020 22:39

I think the lack of testing is due to cost and lack of availability.

The link below says tests are £150 each. So it would cost £9 billion to test everyone in the UK?

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51887078

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