Hide Ya Wives, Hide Ya Kids: Worldwide Coronavirus Pandemic!

[jayt1202]

Aren't the rapid tests still known to be much more inaccurate than the standard PCR? My Mom has a place in Hawaii (Big Island) and upon arriving you have to also take a rapid test, that came back positive so she then took a PCR and found out the next day she was negative. She had also taken a PCR on the mainland that came back negative a couple days beforehand.

 

[uncalled4boy]

* Tariq Nasheed does not only have an issue with the style of the infomercial but that he is also an anti-vaxxer clown himself.*

Not For Me But I Look At It Like Hopefully Someone Who Watched And Is Not Knowledgeable Could Relate To Her Examples And Understand.

 

[kdawg]

Yes, that’s a known fact - they do produce false positives and false negatives - around 20% can be a false negative.
A false positive should be fixed by a proper test but there’s nothing you can do about a false negative - and that’s why people need to continue with mask wearing and hygiene etc - a negative test isn’t permission to go about thinking you are safe.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[160jordansdeep]

 

[Blake P]

Aren't the rapid tests still known to be much more inaccurate than the standard PCR? My Mom has a place in Hawaii (Big Island) and upon arriving you have to also take a rapid test, that came back positive so she then took a PCR and found out the next day she was negative. She had also taken a PCR on the mainland that came back negative a couple days beforehand.

FWIW

 

[daruma]

beginning of pandemic / now.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[youngwolf]

Australia.

Just seeing those people gave me capital A anxiety. And they’re gonna let 30k fans in daily during the open.

 

[Blake P]

Australia.

Just seeing those people gave me capital A anxiety. And they’re gonna let 30k fans in daily during the open.

I have faith the Aussies will do it right. They’ve been very successful in keeping things under control so far and it would be disappointing if they let it slip now. I know the quarantine issue for teams with positive cases was big news initially, but I never heard much after that.

I just read MLB is planning to get fans back in stadiums for the upcoming baseball season. Hoping by then the vaccinations have had enough of an effect on case numbers that it could be viable.

 

[youngwolf]

Man, I hope you’re right. But 30k people daily is scary.

 

[whywesteppin]

this is good news -- the first solid evidence that the vaccine will cut transmission. I mean, it obviously will, no one seriously doubted that, but now we have some idea how strong that effect will be.

they looked at PCR-positive swabs to assess if people could spread the virus. this is probably overestimating how many people with the vaccine are still able to spread the virus because they likely have lower titer of virus and are less likely to be superspreaders even if infected, if I had to guess.

The AstraZeneca vaccine is shown to drastically cut transmission of the virus.

A new study by researchers at the University of Oxford underscores the importance of mass inoculation as a path out of the pandemic.

www.nytimes.com

The study by researchers at the University of Oxford is the first to document evidence that any coronavirus vaccine can reduce transmission of the virus.

Researchers measured the impact on transmission by swabbing participants every week seeking to detect signs of the virus. If there is no virus present, even if someone is infected, it cannot be spread. And they found a 67 percent reduction in positive swabs among those vaccinated.

 

[daruma]

 

[jrp44]

Just had to take my first covid test. Woke up this morning with chills and a low fever and my company is real strict with symptoms. They were out of rapid so got the regular one. Felt like they hit my brain with that swab

 

[l knicks fresh knick l]

wait you think you may have gotten it? might sound like a dumb question but have you been wearing a mask? when I hear people who may have gotten it I always ask where they think they might have gotten it from

 

[160jordansdeep]

 

[jrp44]

wait you think you may have gotten it? might sound like a dumb question but have you been wearing a mask? when I hear people who may have gotten it I always ask where they think they might have gotten it from

No idea. Yeah I wear a mask all day at work and when I go to grocery store etc...haven't eaten in a restaurant since like May, and haven't done anything but work/home

 

[Blake P]

No idea. Yeah I wear a mask all day at work and when I go to grocery store etc...haven't eaten in a restaurant since like May, and haven't done anything but work/home

IMO, the better question is what kind of mask do you wear?

 

[jrp44]

IMO, the better question is what kind of mask do you wear?

Blue surgical masks

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[Blake P]

Blue surgical masks

I assume you realize by now that those offer you very minimal protection against aerosol transmission?

 

[stuntman mike]

my nt fam is in the hospital with covid. please send prayers to the good bro arbys2k

 

[whywesteppin]

my nt fam is in the hospital with covid. please send prayers to the good bro arbys2k

sorry to hear that. hope he pulls through and comes back to 100% soon.

 

[whywesteppin]

 

[s3p4tu]

I assume you realize by now that those offer you very minimal protection against aerosol transmission?

IMO, it's all depends. If it's being reused over and over again and worn below the nose, then yeah I can see it's less protective.
I still use my rule of thumbs: no close interaction more than 10 minutes.