Negative PCR after POS LFT. Lab error!

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@poorbuthappy

I think the issues with the LFTs is that they are reliant on people logging their own results. Which people do if it's negative in order to access services / venues etc.

The PCR way of doing things meant all positive results were logged and people being contacted by T&T.
Now we are further down the path (not going to say out of the woods obv) they don't need the cost of the PCRs / T&T anymore so have changed the narrative.

It does seem strange that we're testing and tracing while simultaneously letting the virus run rampant and not updating symptoms so people know when to test in the first place. I suspect government no longer want to fund testing. Makes sense if they no longer want us talking about numbers/hospitalisations/long covid as this exposes their poor management of the situation. I think the lab issue will be an excuse to pull the plug.

Article about it on the Daily Mail website (sorry), suggests that lab has been operating chaotically for months. Also says that West Berkshire council is telling it's residents to get retested because their previous tests may be affected. But what about all the other local authorities where test centres were using this lab? Sounds like a lot of them are in the SW, but none of the others are saying anything yet?

There were several threads on here about people having several positive LFT results and then a negative PCR and being told to go to work, send their children to school etc etc

@CyclingIsNotOuting

There were several threads on here about people having several positive LFT results and then a negative PCR and being told to go to work, send their children to school etc etc

Yes-that was the official advice.

The sun likes a more fun angle on reporting the issue

www.thesun.co.uk/news/13900590/workers-covid-testing-centre-fight-booze/

School sent email saying bcc say if postive lft stay at home.
Doesn't say to retest.
Not seen many public statements from South west authorities public health teams.

@CyclingIsNotOuting

There were several threads on here about people having several positive LFT results and then a negative PCR and being told to go to work, send their children to school etc etc

I’ve just been listening to a phone in on Radio 2. A couple of callers didn’t believe the positive PCR results, isolated anyway. A couple said they tried to raise the issue of the results being incorrect then retested by PCR anyway and then received positive results.

Many would have, naturally, accepted the PCR result and gone back to school/work. Frightening for people who go out to work and live with CEV people.

But, if you retested today because of a test you took on oct 4, your quarantine time wouldn't be reset to oct 4 would it ? So who would do that!

@tiddlysquat this is exactly why I will not restest my DC. Now that I finally have a positive from a postal test I'm pretty sure theirs were false negatives. But restesting now would only result in an extra 10 days quarantine.

I calles 119 to try and report the conflicting LF/PCR results, the person I spoke to was utterly clueless and just told us to crack on, no isolating needed.

It's on BBC iplayer

We’ve had a text from
Test and trace saying our test was effected and recommended re-testing (which we already have) we didn’t use the Newbury show ground site so worrying how many are effected!

I’m not in that area but at the start of the year I had all the covid symptoms and a negative pcr- I then lost my taste and smell for three months & an antibody test said I’d had the virus. I was too ill to go anywhere for three weeks and we were already in lockdown but it scares me to think what would have happened had I got ill now and had a negative pcr. I don’t think this will be an isolated situation.

I've had a text from NHS Test & Trace to tell me there may have been an issue with my result (I was tested on 4/10) . I'm in the south west.

They strongly recommend I book an appointment to be re-tested.
Is it even worth it now? Will a PCR still detect the virus after 11 days? I am convinced I have had covid, with all the classic symptoms and I isolated regardless of the negative PCR because I'd had so many positive LFs.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4372169-The-great-South-west-PCR-mystery?pg=12

(p12 of a long thread on suspect tests in the SW, this page is from today after the news about this lab broke!)

twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1448933287796281365

I posted that on the other 1 but it is worth a read.

@tiddlysquat

But, if you retested today because of a test you took on oct 4, your quarantine time wouldn't be reset to oct 4 would it ? So who would do that!

Your isolation starts from when your symptoms begin, so it wouldn't affect your end date. They like to do it by full days on test and trace so you seem to get 11 days, I've just had Covid myself.

Tested 5 days ago as close contact. Negative result. Text today to say my test likely effected so need a retest. Very far from the SW.

I retested before text anyway due to close contact day 8 PCR so juat waiting o results again

@hopjumpskipstone they only go back a set amount of days from the test though. Hopefully different if you get a message to re-test.

@hopskipjumpstone that's what the website says but it's not true.
If you don't have symptoms (dc now Don't) it would be counted as a new case and they'd be told to isolate.
My third test attempt was day 7 of infection and they gave me 5 days isolation instead of 3, so I end up doing 12 days total which is really annoying.