why hasn't the selta variant symptoms prompted a change in the requirements for a pcr test

[ladygindiva]

just that really. Widely reported symptoms of delta variant are headache sore throat and runny nose (dd has these), yet to get a pcr test you need to declare you have lost taste/smell, persistent cough or temperature. Surely the symptoms should be updated? Obviously I've lied to get a pcr test .... seems odd I should have to.

Sorry just read someone said LFT was negative

@Daisiesarebeautiful

I don't think the symptoms have changed. I think it's summer cold season and people just happen to have colds/hayfever and test positive for covid. Same as back in December when everyone was saying cold symptoms were common among those who tested positive, it was winter bug season. It's perfectly possible to have a cold and be asymptomatically positive for covid. Just my opinion and not too out there considering the vast majority of those who contact covid are asymptomatic.

This isn’t true though. Studies at Glasgow University on the interaction between rhinovirus (commons cold) and COVid have proved that cold trumps COVid - if you have a cold, COVid doesn’t get a look in.

So if you have cold symptoms and a positive COVid test - those are COVid symptoms not a cold that you happen to have caught at the same time.

That's very interesting Myths thank you