The great South west PCR mystery

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They say they investigating when we going to find out outcome?

inews.co.uk/news/covid-lateral-flow-tests-negative-pcr-1236141

Is it option

1. faulty batch pcr tests only at South west drive through test centres? 2/ corruption or negligence at the local lab? Does the South west have 1 giant lab that processes bath/ Swindon and Bristol pcr tests
2. some new varient that evades pcr tests like the one in France.

Are we even doing much genome sequencing these days?

We did have surge testing in Bristol last winter with varient e48k similar South Africa but that was pre delta.

We had massive cases in locally June and July.
Local r rate seems low currently despite so many off school and 2 Universitys return.

3 kids my child's year have postive lft but negative pcr.
We don't have any set date for covid jabs.
The school is not declaring any cases at all publicly..

Weirdly people saying home tests giving postive results.

That lft more likely to bring us false negative than postive..

Just makes me worried so much covid all over the region undetected with postives not isolating.

So many if these postive lft negative pcr seem to be school children.
ONS forecast 1 in 14 teens had covid last week yet all teens at our school with covid symptoms have negative pcr?

Judging by my ds symptoms be plenty going around with it anyway as we only picked up on weekly LFT had he not of done that he would be out as no classic covid symptoms and not really ill

They say not to retest for covid for 90 days as you can still get a positive result on a PCR test. So surely they should retest everyone that had a +LF and -PCR and see how many test positive regardless of whether it was early September or more recently.

Think you're not that likely to get a positive though, it's just possible
And as things stand you'd legally have to isolate !

An antibody test can tell you if you've had covid though. I'm tempted. But am I £60 tempted
I'd rather pay £60 than isolate!

@everythingthelighttouches

We had a text today from test and trace to say a PCR result from 26th sept may have been wrong. No further action to take. We’re in Leicestershire.

I've had the same today for myself and dd, we're south west.

Just as well I ignored the pcr result and kept dd off school then!

@littlestmunchkin thats what il thinking for ds1 if he tests positive today from pcr is it because he had covid 3/4 weeks ago or has he caught from his brother.
Then he will have to isolate from test today( although we kind of are anyway as a positive in household)

@littlestmunchkin would having the injection show antibodies though ??

No there are different antibody tests for vaccine- produced antibodies and infection-produced antibodies.

@JanglyBeads oh tHanks I never knew this
Goverment should pay then for all those that the lab got wrong , well fine the company to pay the costs

I am awaiting pcr tests for myself and 1 primary and nursery age child.
Toddlers been since tue and me and the boy since Thursday.
The kids seem on the mend I don't feel as if I am.

Went to hot clinic at doctors surgery got course antibiotics in case it a chest infection/ Toddler checked over and ok and advised we all pcr test as lft not meant for symptoms.

But my teenager seem well and daily lft negative so wondering if it is covid if it came from primary or nursery.
Which is ironic as senior school is so bad we went from Friday back to bubbles to today upper year groups remote learning lower year groups haven't reached the magic threshold of too much covid although unquantifiable cases i every year and bcc public health are advising action .
Decided 12 year old is well im not sending in and will risk unauthorised absence.
They break up wed sons primary not until Friday.

We had text from test and trace regarding 2 teenagers to retest they took a pcr test 3 weeks ago outskirts of Bristol.
We not retesting them as all their lft are negative and they both seem well.

Oh
Here’s part of the answer as to what went wrong with that lab….

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/18/uk-lab-immensa-false-negative-covid-tests-not-fully-accredited

Oh wow, what an absolute farce!! who overseas these things???

Wow. £170 million of public money. This government is corrupt, laundering money at the expense of people’s lives - and no one gives a shit.

The Secretary of State for Health I guess - which was Matt Hancock.

@siestalady

This thread makes me feel like it's March 2020 again

Why?

@MrBossBaby I’d guess that @siestalady means because there is a huge hidden number of infections spreading and the government is doing nothing about them and telling us everything is under control.

I've just caught up with this thread. What a farce! Cases around us are spreading like in December 2020. The difference is that most of us are vaccinated so that's a positive at least. I agree, why is this not headline news? Why are we not putting at least some measure in places such as SD and masks? Why are GPs still operating at reduced service levels yet the rest of the country are back to normal?

We've had colds and illness in recent weeks but negative LFT. Is there any indication that LFT were also unreliable?

No not at all. The problem was at the lab and LFDs don’t go to labs.

However LFDs only pick up some positives, not all.

Our local schools are back to mask wearing from this morning and have cancelled all meetings. They are limping on with supply teachers.

I've got a govt antibody test on the way via Zoe. I think it only tests for infection antibodies but I'm not absolutely sure until
I get it and read the info. I'm only drawing blood from myself if that's the case though!

It does

We had a letter last week from nhs for myself and ds2 to do a home test put it to one side as he then had covid , will have to see if just swab or antibody

Thanks @JanglyBeads it will be good to know one way or the other

If I'm negative for infection, then I think dd and I had a cold and she just had covid in the background. Very interested to find out. She tested + and I was - but we def had the same thing. If I didn't catch it that's also good as means the vaccine worked , esp as my second jab was early May.

A third of DS’s class are off with covid. Similar in schools across the town. I tested positive myself with a PCR (thanks kids) but the LFTs have all come back negative.