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Last night's HSE report live .One of the scientists or doctors said we are testing up to 1700 per day . I don't know where everyone is getting 5000 out of
Three days ago, Anne O'Connor, COO of the HSE, said that we are currently testing 5,000 cases per day.
Two weeks ago, Harris said that we needed to ramp up testing to 15,000 per day.
This consistent panic/bashing about the numbers of tests being performed/% of positive results lack any alternate solutions to the current one.
This is exactly it.There are significant shortages of testing kits etc currently at a global level. Therefore the current strategy is to limit the number of those being tested to those showing highly indicative symptoms, those in the high risk categories and medical staff who are in constant contact with those who are contagious.
This consistent panic/bashing about the numbers of tests being performed/% of positive results lack any alternate solutions to the current one.
I was central to questioning the numbers, I guess this is, at least in part, directed at me. I understand a little of what you are trying to say. However, my initial point this morning was that the numbers, as presented, didn't add up and it seems pretty clear to me now that this hunch was right.
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That's not the testing criteria at the moment. You have to be in a priority group.
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It's one thing to say, we are focusing our limited test kits on X.
But in some cases, it is not being presented that way. It's being presented as, we are testing enough.
It's also not panic \ bashing to say that we need to be testing more, we need more test kits while accepting right now we have to limit the tests.
Again I would imagine this lack of testing let it be 2000 a day is one reason our community transmission and clusters are so high . I mean if our healthcare workers are catching it what chance do primary carers for these cases have when they are not even sure. Also milder cases once nearly over it maybe without even knowing they had it for sure are spreading virus.
The thermometers will not lie maybe 2high temp 2 days in row tested on third
The point had nothing to do with asymptomatic or pre symptomatic just the simple fact that virsus will be passed due to lack of testing and knowledge whether you have or had virus or not.Nothing new there, it's been well established that asymptomatic transmission is a feature of COVID-19, as are high false-negative test results the among pre-symptomatic population. STaff in care homes are included in the priority group, so will be tested as appropriate.
There are lots of reasons people run a temperature. High temperature alone still won't get you a test even if you're working in ICU.
The point had nothing to do with asymptomatic or pre symptomatic just the simple fact that virsus will be passed due to lack of testing and knowledge whether you have or had virus or not.
a visit from doctor or healthcare worker to test symptoms instead of a call would probably bring strike rate higher when we obviously haven't ability to test more .
Lots of people will be contagious but will test negative.
when the backlog of results start to come back from the tested patients with the new criteria I can only see a huge increase in infections and ICU admissions.
I doubt that the ICU admissions are related to testing in any way.
People are admitted to ICU when they are very sick. Quite a few of them have not been tested yet.
Brendan
Also quite interesting is that we are bringing on board a veterinary lab
In Germany, veterinary labs were used early to process tests and they can now handle 100,000 tests per day. I don't know how long it takes to turnaround the test results.
I don't understand that?
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