DH tested positive

[HelloMissus]

So DH and I both were rated recently as a routine part of our work.
I’ve come back negative but he’s tested positive.
He’s got no symptoms at all. He’s working, running etc etc
Is it possibly a mistake? Or more likely he’s asymptomatic?
Is it worth getting him another test do you think?

You are ignoring the context being international travel @DancingInTheGarden. He says testing people at the airport only identifies 7% of those who are positive, that's why they need to still isolate. Since March it's been said again and again that someone can get an infectious dose, but it takes some days for that infection to take hold sufficiently for it to show up in a test. That is why tests should be used by those with symptoms only, or care workers due to the risks posed. Delay between infection and onset of symptoms has been the same for every virus there has ever been in the world to date. Nobody gets a rash the moment they catch chickenpox, gets flu with an instant fever, diarrhoea the second they're infected with norovirus... it takes a little time for viruses to work through the body. With covid it takes 2-44 days to exhibit symptoms, most commonly 3-7 days; even asymptomatic people will only have enough virus at that later point.

False positives are a massive issue. The government even recommend a second test.

What’s the point of routine testing if you’re not going to act upon the result? That’s barmy. Do you retest until you get the result that suits?

Why would you believe a subsequent negative result over a positive result? Because it’s preferable?

@HelloMissus

We are both isolating - we can work from home easily enough, but we’ve things we’d like to do if possible. So if it’s a false positive that would be helpful. Work are happy to do it for DH. Football club so assuming they have a gazillion private tests.

Haven't there been a few asymptomatic positive tests is the football world this week, why would you assume the test is wrong?

Ooh does he work for Leyton Orient?!

No, he shouldn’t waste another test.
There are many cases I’ve heard of where one partner is positive and the other is negative.

I had an out of the blue positive test, was retested and was negative but was advised I still had to isolate as you don’t know which was is incorrect. The right think to do is to isolate and quarantine anyway.

He’s had another test.
Work were perfectly happy to do it.
We should have the results tomorrow or Saturday, so we’ll see.

cockle equally why would believe a positive test over a negative one when you have no symptoms whatsoever and no one you’re in contact with does?

audacity we’ve been advised the opposite by the club medics.

bruno ha!
No a big club who test everyone like crazy to protect their cash cows - sorry - players.

Wow that’s so irresponsible of them. I was advised by PHE. Track and trace weren’t interested in the negative result so had to give all my details and contacts had to quarantine. Hope you get some clarity.

Why is anyone listening to what Dominic Raab has to say another anything in the first place ?

audacity they’ve said if he gets 2 negatives on the bounce. And he had no symptoms whatsoever that’s got to be right.

I hope that OP and her DH continue to be well.

You can test positive in the post-infectious period, as well as pre-symptomatically. I don't think another test will add clarity and that this time passes smoothly & quickly for you.

I was a bit confused why OP & her DH got tested if they were without symptoms nor in people jobs and are WFH, though. I mean, why test?

lljkk DH works for a football club.
They’re all tested constantly because it’s a contact sport and of course millions of pounds are at stake.

I tested because I’m a film producer and I planned to go to set. We all have to test negative before we go on set because we can’t socially distance all the time (though we try).

[quote DancingInTheGarden]**@whatswithtodaytoday* @tldr and @DamitJanet*

I DID listen to the full clip last night which is how I knew about it and how to find it. I might have quoted it incorrectly but that is exactly why I went and found the clip and linked to it so others could hear for themselves.

It is also a bit the way he phrased it "The false positive rate is very high [it or so] only 7% of tests will be successful in identifying those who have the virus"

So 7% of tests are true positives or true negatives.

The absolute figures around the false positives then is confusing but it is still a statistical nightmare and a lottery for scientific results.

If I developed a test with this rate of false results I would have been sacked for incompetence and the test binned.[/quote]
You misunderstood Raab - because he was very confusing / confused

SkyNews@SkyNews

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says the "challenge" with testing for ‪#COVID19‬ in airports is 'the very high false positive rate'
and adds 'only 7% of tests will be successful in identifying those who have the virus'.
(video)
twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1308655561081225217

What Raab meant - if he understood the governments own publications -
is that there is a very high false negative rate especially on day of arrival

This government study on double testing for airport arrivals showed that
on day of arrival, only 7% of infected people showed as positive

However, after isolation, a 2nd test picked up 86% of those infected on day 6, or 98% if tested on day 10

Investigation into the effectiveness of “double testing” travellers incoming to the UK for signs of COVID-19 infection

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/909382/s0544-phe-double-testing-travellers-170620-sage-42.pdf

The problem at airports was the high % of false negatives on day of arrival - not false positives

Amazing that Raab managed to fuck up that simple message

ah come on, It's Raab. Piss-up failure in brewery comes to mind.

Thanks for clarifying @BigChocFrenzy

But after afew days it will become negative....

Doesn't mean that the negative result is the correct one

Was you born in Chile?

@HelloMissus

What was his recent result?

OP please come back and tell us the result of his next test!