Private tests?

[onlytuesday]

My daughter has been told today she needs to isolate for the next 7 days having had a close contact a week ago. I'm wondering if her school will let her come back before that date if we get a negative test for her. I'm willing to pay to have a private one done as I understand you can only have an nhs one of you have symptoms and she doesn't. There seems to be lots of places online that do private tests but I'm unsure whether to trust them. Does anyone have experience of this?

No she won’t be allowed in even with a negative test result she has to isolate for the full period of time.

No. She has to isolate the full time regardless of a negative test.

No, she could be incubating the virus but not show as positive yet. You just have to wait it out, unfortunately.

Aw poop. I was worried that would be the case. They've missed so much school already this year, it's so frustrating.

FFS why are people still not bloody understanding this? There is NO POINT getting a test without symptoms. A negative result in those circumstances means fuck all.
It really is not hard. It is no wonder we keep seeing cases rising when this is the way people think.

@rainbowunicorn

FFS why are people still not bloody understanding this? There is NO POINT getting a test without symptoms. A negative result in those circumstances means fuck all. It really is not hard. It is no wonder we keep seeing cases rising when this is the way people think.

It's because it's difficult to understand.

On the one hand we have people who are asymptomatic testing positive.

On the other hand we are being told that if someone is asymptomatic and tests negative it means nothing if eg they have come back from overseas. But if they go into hospital and have a test before a procedure and it's negative, that's fine and is treated as negative.

??? Either the test works or it doesn't.

There is zero need to swear. If you are so well informed, then explain it.

FFS why are people still not bloody understanding this? There is NO POINT getting a test without symptoms. A negative result in those circumstances means fuck all.
It really is not hard. It is no wonder we keep seeing cases rising when this is the way people think.

Why are the government testing everyone in Liverpool, symptoms or not then?

I think the point of the 2 week isolation is that is how long symptoms take to develop. She could test negative now but still be incubating the virus .

@cologne4711 neither example you give is anything like the example in the OP.
The child is a close contact. This means that the child is known to have been in contact with a confirmed positive case. The child must isolate until the end of the 14 days due to there being a very real risk that they are infected but not yet symptomatic.
The examples that you give do not have the close contact so completely different risk level to someone that has been in close contact with a positive case.
Yes the examples you give may well be incubating the virus ready to start showing symptoms while in hospital having their surgery but the likelihood is tiny compared to a known close contact.
It really is not at all difficult to understand. My teenage children can understand so it really puzzles me that adults seem incapable.

@Barbthebuilder

*FFS why are people still not bloody understanding this? There is NO POINT getting a test without symptoms. A negative result in those circumstances means fuck all. It really is not hard. It is no wonder we keep seeing cases rising when this is the way people think.*

Why are the government testing everyone in Liverpool, symptoms or not then?

I think the point of the 2 week isolation is that is how long symptoms take to develop. She could test negative now but still be incubating the virus .

This is a completely different scenario. The testing in liverpool is to research how high the level is within the community. The people being tested there are not expected to isolate after testing unless they have symptoms or have close contact. The point is to try and pinpoint cases within the community and break transmission. The point I made was that in the OP's case getting a negative result will not reduce the need to isolate. The child is a close contact of apositive case, thus raising the risk of the child being infected.