If you've been vaccinated and do LFT two of three times a week, can you assume you don't have covid ?

[nonaomi]

Is it safe to say, you're quite safe if that's your situation ? Or your situation to be ? If the people you're seeing have also had two jabs and also do regular lateral flow tests ?

@Alfaix

Has this been weirdly accepted?

Widely not weirdly!

www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html

@Alfaix this is great ! Good for them. I heard Boris say at some point that we didn't take the same approach - not because it's not safe for vaccinated people to hang out- but because it was decided we should all 'unlock together'. As it wouldn't be fair on the people who haven't had the vaccine yet, if the ones that have are ' free '..

I'd really like to see some gov. Ads that promote new confidence instead of those ones still telling people not turn a group of 5 into a group of 7 at a park because its 'not safe'. What's needed over the next few months is the same media and spokespeople that have been so visible over the last 18 months using that platform for reassuring people that we are NOT in the same place as last summer and we won't have another winter like the one just gone and we are not India and the vacc is effective. And repeat.

@HugeAckmansWife

I'd really like to see some gov. Ads that promote new confidence instead of those ones still telling people not turn a group of 5 into a group of 7 at a park because its 'not safe'. What's needed over the next few months is the same media and spokespeople that have been so visible over the last 18 months using that platform for reassuring people that we are NOT in the same place as last summer and we won't have another winter like the one just gone and we are not India and the vacc is effective. And repeat.

I completely agree with this ! Bravo !

Useful transmission reduction study, shows reduction in household transmission by 38-49%:www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56904993.

This is clumsily written though because that's on top of the 60-65% reduction in catching covid. Worst case 75.2% don't transmit, best case it's 82.15% of vaccinated people don't transmit covid. In the unlikely event you did transmit covid, as they are vaccinated they each then only have a 35-40% chance of catching covid and largely very mildly.

I already feel safe simply due to the low cases currently. The chances of coming across someone with covid is unlikely in my area. Add onto that LFT and vaccines within my friendship and family group then I won't feel concerned once things open up fully and can't wait for masks to stop being compulsory.

For context- my children had mild covid at Xmas. The LFT picked up my daughters before she had symptoms. She took main test for confirmation. I lived in same house when they had covid and had a negative test and a negative antibody test afterwards. If I didn't catch it then I feel my risk of picking it up in a shop is fairly low. Plus I've had my first jab now. Hopefully once everyone has been offered a vaccine we can get things back to normal this summer.

I would say yes in terms of getting back to normal. But not a fail safe. I had been vaccinated (x1) and had a negative lft when I first got covid symptoms.

@HugeAckmansWife

I'd really like to see some gov. Ads that promote new confidence instead of those ones still telling people not turn a group of 5 into a group of 7 at a park because its 'not safe'. What's needed over the next few months is the same media and spokespeople that have been so visible over the last 18 months using that platform for reassuring people that we are NOT in the same place as last summer and we won't have another winter like the one just gone and we are not India and the vacc is effective. And repeat.

Not bloody likely unfortunately. Couldn't believe the wording on this letter that came through from our council's director of public health this morning!