770 students at Northumbria test positive.

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770 students test positive at Northumbria

https://www.ladbible.com/news/uk-outbreak-at-uk-university-sees-770-students-test-positive-for-covid-19-20201002?c=1601655033701%3Fsource%3Dfacebook&fbclid=IwAR2zpVljTZshbUGlHRo4MKwmTHiJtZxUoCjj_MUX3n2FobXOJLbw-gl3G-Y

They would find the same in schools if they mass tested them.

It's interesting that only 10% are showing symptoms. I wonder how did the other 90% find out that they had the virus, was it through contact tracing or were all the students tested?

Northumberland's figures are going to be through the roof.

It's in Newcastle .

I'll get my coat.

I think they mass test at university. I believe they are at Liverpool anyway.

They don’t mass test at the majority of universities. Only 12 universities have a testing service, and in most cases it’s just for those who have symptoms.

The thing is - only 78 had symptoms. So if they’d tested in line with NHS advice, they’d be saying they’d got an outbreak of 78, not 770.

If 90% of cases are hidden in all the other universities and schools, no wonder cases are rising!

They must have been mass testing if only 10% of the cases were symptomatic.

Really shocking. Bloody hell.

If 90% are asymptomatic it’s going to be virtually impossible to stop the spread.

Send all the students back home for god's sake. Remote learning is the only way now for them otherwise this will be a continuing theme for god knows how long.

@Char2015 surely that's the worst possible suggestion right now!

I just got a report from our local council about testing in the borough and of all tests carried out in the borough this week, 3.4% were positive. People are being tested for no reason and ignored when they're really unwell and don't check the symptom list. Too much tick-boxing.
10% is high. 3.4% is lower than national average which I'd have to read email again but was 4.5% of tests positive nationally.

[quote HarrietOh]@Char2015 surely that's the worst possible suggestion right now![/quote]
Why is that?

They are testing the flat mates of those who test positive, as they've been in such close prolonged contact. So if one has symptoms, seven more test.

So 96.6% of tests carried out were negative!!! Any wonder you can't get them when you need them if everyone seems to be testing themselves!!!

@Char2015 because they've a high chance of already being infected, and they'll take it home (perhaps on public transport) and give it to their families.

If only 3.4% of those with God only knows what complaint are testing positive, it doesn't surprise me that if they're targetting tests that it would be higher at 10%

10% isn't the rate of infection among the tested student population though, it's the percent of the infected population who are showing syptoms.

“ 10% is high. 3.4% is lower than national average which I'd have to read email again but was 4.5% of tests positive nationally.”

Hang on if I have understood you correctly you are comparing different things

10% is symptomatic cases among positive cases. We don’t know how many were tested overall (everyone arriving on campus? I have no idea)

3.4% and 4.5% are positive cases from tests done on people with symptoms?

So it’s a completely different selection of people and the two percentages cannot be compared

@Char2015 - because all the students will then take it home across the country, potentially to older parents and grandparents.

Bit of a non-article statisically speaking

[quote picklemewalnuts]@Char2015 because they've a high chance of already being infected, and they'll take it home (perhaps on public transport) and give it to their families.[/quote]
I'm saying students in general across the country. Obviously infected students/close contacts isolate for the time specified then they can go home too. This isn't just unique to this university and it's just going to keep happening.

From what I gather from the 3 lads who are stuck in Italy after working teaching English over the summer.

You can test positive for up to 12 months after you have Covid.

So how many of those 90% asymptomatic actually have possibly had it and the pcr test is picking viral particles Vs how many are actually carrying live virus they can transmit?

They had it 6 weeks ago. They still test positive. Another person in the quarantine hotel is testing positive 3 months after having it.

I think some people are confused. 770 students have tested positive, out of how mmany we don't though. Of those 770 positive students only 78 are showing symptoms.