Testing v Self Isolating

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My understanding was that you only got a test if you had symptoms.
If you were a contact but had no symptoms you had to isolate for 14 days?
I was having some furniture delivered tomorrow. The company rang me and said one of their team has been pinged by test and trace. So the whole team have booked tests. If they are negative they will come as planned.
I said I thought the contact had to isolate anyway. I pointed out that a negative result today doesn't mean they are not incubating the virus.
He reckons most of them get tested at least twice a week as they have children who are constantly in contact with positive cases at school.
So it seems based on this that many people are getting tested instead of isolating?

You can carry on as normal if you get a negative test x

Only the person contacted needs to isolate, the others don't need to isolate or test.

@Mrsmummy90 where is this advice please?

@Mrsmummy90 that's not true
They isolate for 14 days whether they get a negative test or not as they are within the incubation period

If they are in SI because they are a close contact of a confirmed case, then they could be incubating and a negative test does not release them from contact SI.

I'm amazed and dismayed that still people don't get thus

But yes its only the contact that needs to isolate, not the rest of the team (unless the contact then gets symptoms)

Read on the NHS website

@Mrsmummy90

You can carry on as normal if you get a negative test x

Incorrect.

That's ONLY if you are testing because you have 'symptoms'. They're testing if your symptoms are because you have CV.

if you are a close contact of someone who tested positive you have to isolate fir 14 days because that's the incubation period (anytime iver that 14 days you might show symptoms if rest push tube IF you were tested).

A negative test on day 5 doesn't mean that in day 13 you'll still test negative.

We aren't doing enough testing here to improve data.

Personally I think people should be tested on day 14 with the spit tests to see if they're testing negative and a PWR test if that's positive

The person has been told to isolate - the app told him to.

Its only if you have symptoms and a negative test that you can stop isolating. A contact keeps isolating despite a negative test

@Mrsmummy90 the screenshot you posted has shown you are wrong. It says you can carry on as normal if you receive a negative test unless you've been told to self isolated for 14 days by track and trace, which this person has.

Even with a negative test, you have to isolate if you have been in contact with someone with a positive test result.

But if you show symptoms, get a test and it's negative, I think you carry on.

Let me clarify, yes that one person will have to continue to isolate but the rest of the team will be able to come and work.

The contact of a positive case has to SI.
So my DCS have both been sent back from school numerous times due to being in contact with a positive case. We, the parents, contacts of contacts did not have to SI.

DS currently has Covid from yet another case at school. DH tested negative but his SI is still 14 days from DS' first symptoms. Our whole house is in SI, 10 days for the infected person, 14 for the rest if there are no further cases.

But if you show symptoms, and HAVEN'T been in contact with someone with a positive case of COVID, get a test and it's negative, I think you carry on.

Left out a quite important part of that sentence!

OP, so the person pinged was a contact of a positive case? They must SI for 14 days.

But the wider team, if they are contacts of the contact don't need to SI.

If the person pinged has Covid then yes, their contacts must SI of course for 14 days.

But I think you're saying this driver was in the first group, in which case, unless his colleagues have been in contact with a positive case then they can carry on (as in the first school/parent example).

Yes pinged guy is just a contact. So I agree it's only him that needs to isolate (though to be honest I don't want any of them in my house right now!)
So it's as I thought. It's a small local firm and they are trying to do the right thing I guess. Pinged guy could have kept quiet and put me and all his colleagues at risk.
Trouble is if they all test negative and carry on then pinged guy might be incubating.

Some supermarkets are allowing staff to work instead of isolating following a contact with a positive person following a negative test. I am writing to supermarket head offices to point it out as they are bringing huge risks to the general public from this approach. I think it is a genuine lack of understanding. But it is very very worrying.

@Thethingswedoforlove. I think that would be ok if they had daily tests but one negative test does not mean they haven't been infected.
I did read a press report about potential for daily tests next year under the moonshot scheme to avoid self isolation.

Agreed re daily tests. But the examples I know of are one test very soon after the being pinged. Hoping for daily tests soon....