770 students at Northumbria test positive.

[Gobacktothe90s]

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

*know

Well if you target all of boys aged 10 to see who plays football, you'll find a lower percentage than if you target all sons of football players where there's bound to be a raised percentage. Stats are comparable.

@Char2015 - but unless all students are tested/quarantined for 2 weeks first before they went home, you might be sending hundreds of asymptomatic students back across the country.

Ok, sorry, didn't click link. I thought it said 10% of students or something. Must read in future.

I think it's too late, Char.
Given that 95% of students that tested positive are asymptomatic, it's probably rife through all the students living in halls. They should never have been invited back to halls, but there we are.

@itsgettingweird that makes testing almost useless then!

[quote HarrietOh]@Char2015 - but unless all students are tested/quarantined for 2 weeks first before they went home, you might be sending hundreds of asymptomatic students back across the country.[/quote]
Then that is what needs to happen. Every student isolates for 2 weeks then return home. 770 students this week at this uni, how many next week. It's going to be an endless cycle.

There are a lot of false positives with the test. The fact that only 10% are showing any symptoms shows how unreliable the test is.

I work next door to Northumbria Uni

Don't a significant number of positive tests pick up dead virus which is not infectious?

And didn't the the person who developed the test himself say it wasn't intended to be diagnostic?

And didn't the WHO say recently that it's very unlikely asymptomatic people spread it?

And if they did spread it, what the chuff would be the point in sending them all over the country?

And if they only 10% are "displaying symptoms" (and not even described as "ill") why the panic?

Well Bianca, chances are, you won't have any symptoms!

If people who are asymptomatic don't spread it how come so many people are testing positive, surely it can't just be the 78 with symptoms spreading it

@ineedaholidaynow

If people who are asymptomatic don't spread it how come so many people are testing positive, surely it can't just be the 78 with symptoms spreading it

Asymptomatic do spread it though.

There is a theory about super spreaders - where actually only a small percentage of those infected are transmitting to a large number of people. This creates clusters

In January the South Koreans tested 100 people with symptoms and 100 without.

Infection levels were almost identical.

The S. Korean government listened to the Public Health officials who understood immediately that Find Test Trace and Isolate was the most important tool to control the virus. And acted accordingly.

It's October. The U.K. government still haven't.

Check out S. Korea's numbers compared to ours.

Check out their economy.

Check out what restrictions they're living under.

Then maybe you'll understand why people like me having been banging on about TTI and aiming for Zero Covid for 8 months now.

The sooner we all learn the sooner we get our lives back.

@picklemewalnuts

I think it's too late, Char. Given that 95% of students that tested positive are asymptomatic, it's probably rife through all the students living in halls. They should never have been invited back to halls, but there we are.

I agree, they should never of gone back to halls, it's got to be one of the biggest errors made (and there are a lot of them).

3 of DS's friends tested positive after a recent trip to Greece. Two had no symptoms, one had a loss of smell and taste for a couple of days, that's all.

This atheist is praying. Not sure if to go for a lottery win or a covid vaccine next.

Bollocks, wrong thread. I'm definitely going to stop posting now. Sorry.

Only 78 have symptoms. This is getting ludicrous.

*fourtea" yours have been my favourite contributions to this thread. Never stop posting.

Bold failed in sympathy fourtea

Oxbridge will be testing everyone weekly I think. Should be interesting.

You'd imagine that anyone with a cough, actively projecting their expelled air etc. would contaminate more people than someone asymptomatic just breathing normally. Psychology comes into this as much as science.

@Legit

Oxbridge will be testing everyone weekly I think. Should be interesting.

I bet they all will get 100% positive results, being such high achievers lol