Brendan Burgess
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There must be an element of that, but still the deaths/cases is running at way below 1%. I feel that a part of the explanation must be false positives.Are the deaths lower because most infections are amongst younger people who have a higher recovery rate.
Agreed and maybe I shouldn't have invoked the cervical screening but it was the one I Googled. There is a huge difference between 10% and .01%. Talked to a doctor contact. His understanding is that the COVID test is DNA based and these can be very accurate. All the same .01% could well be .05% and still be very accurate but greatly affect our interpretation of the results.Is cervical screening the same type of test as a covid-19 test? Different types of tests will have different performance characteristics. Some diagnostic tests may even be designed to give more false positives than negatives, depending on the impact of the result.
I suppose that is the point.According to the Covid app, there were 88,000 tests this week and 2.8% positive. So more than 97% of those tested were negative. Could the criteria for testing be overly sensitive.
WrongIt would need only a false positive rate of 0.14% to fully explain Dublin's 140 per 100,000 rate.
The number of tests we are carrying out has increased, 0.68 per thousand on the first of August to 2.63 per thousand now. That is nearly a four fold increase and must be a significant part of the reason we are seeing a big increase in cases. The rolling average death rate and the numbers in hospital and ICU are more significant statistics for me.
It would need only a false positive rate of 0.14% to fully explain Dublin's 140 per 100,000 rate.
What really perplexes me is that whilst cases are way up deaths seem to be almost eliminated. It seems to me there must be a significant amount of false positives, certainly more than a scarcely credible .01%.
Testing has increased 4 fold since July. Infection rates have increased 10 fold but yes, the key numbers are the positivity percentage and the hospital admissions, ICU admissions and deaths.The increase in cases means we are testing a lot more and largely among people who are healthy.
GP's and hospitals are not accepting patients without first having to get the test for covid 19.
Across the board? My wife was with her GP in recent days, no COVID test required.
I know people who booked GP appointments. They are asked about any symptoms or potential exposure and if symptoms are similar to any COVID ones or a risk of exposure, you are asked to test first.
And before someone points it out - yes you could lie in which case you should have a look at yourself
Leo, You cannot get a walk-in appointment here. Phone only unfortunately. Leo, you must live in a low area?
Leo, You cannot get a walk-in appointment here. Phone only unfortunately. Leo, you must live in a low area?
My daughter has been to the doctor twice since March and I've been once and we weren't asked anything about tests. I got more questions at the dentist.GP's and hospitals are not accepting patients without first having to get the test for covid 19.
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