[Closed] Days 5 and 6 isolation testing

No. I think you only have to report the initial result. Subsequent tests are to prove that it's gone, not to report a new infection. I think...

I thought you should?

A rapid lateral flow test is a coronavirus test you do yourself. It shows you the result on a handheld device that comes with the test.

Report the result:

every time you use a rapid lateral flow test kit
as soon as possible after you get the result

https://www.gov.uk/report-covid19-result

I’m isolating at the moment done a day 6 test and still positive. I reported the positive result and just had an other call from track and trace. When I explained this was a day 6 test I was told I shouldn’t have reported it. I read the instructions as report every test. In Scotland if it makes any difference.

I presume reporting it means it restarts your isolation period? I'm in day 7 and still testing positive 🙁

I'm day 10 and still testing positive, but can leave the house tomorrow come what may apparently, ****ed if I'm reporting it.

This just adds to the confusion around the testing goalposts.

Back last year when LFTs were nose and throat there was “guidance” to not to use LFTs for 90 days following a positive PCR test. The LFTs could give false results. I’m assuming here that they were sensitive enough to detect a small viral load.

We’ve now been on nose only tests for months, I have seen media coverage of someone with symptoms having a negative test with nose only, a positive test using a nose only kit on nose and throat. Followed up with a positive PCR on the same day.

Now in an attempt to get everyone back to the Petri dish office the guidance is to do LFTs on days six and seven to get negative results and end isolation.

If LFTs can detect viral load for up to 90 days how can they be used simultaneously to detect no viral load on days 6 and 7?

If I had a liking for tin foil hats?

90 days was PCR tests I don’t think it was ever LFTs.

I’m day 10 and still testing positive, but can leave the house tomorrow come what may apparently, **** if I’m reporting it.

Yes, although you're not supposed to be infectious towards the end.

I had it a couple of weeks back, didn't test -ve till day 9.

The LFT results varied a lot, at the start and end, a faint line, on day 3 or 4 a massive great leaking red line!

Does the strength of the line actual mean anything?

90 days was PCR tests I don’t think it was ever LFTs.

Someone needs to tell the LEAs and then each of the schools and colleges they over see. Wife and Boy2 given that advice, primary school for Wife, she’s a TA, and Tech College for Boy2.

Does the strength of the line actual mean anything?

They can be configured like that, but I don't think you can read that much into these ones.

On the strip you have 4 areas

An absorbent pad, which filters the solution and holds it.
A conjugate pad, which adds in the antibodies or other reagents that bind to the target molecules in the sample.
Test lines, which have specific compounds which bind to the antibodies/reagents and give you the colored line
Control line, as above but looking for something more generic
A second absorbent pad, which helps draw the sample up the strip otherwise it would stop flowing as soon as it got wet.

So a dark line means there was more reagent absorbed onto that test line, but unless you've got something to calibrate that against it doesn't really tell you much. It could just mean you had too much/not enough buffer solution, or there was a big gob of snot/saliva diluting or concentrating the sample.

Does the strength of the line actual mean anything?

Mine were very illuminating...

Day 1

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Day 5 - test line went bright red almost instantly

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Day 8

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Day 9

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I'm reporting my day 5/6 tests (still positive).When you enter the code they text you in the NHS covid app it doesn't reset your isolation.

I didn't report any of my LF tests, I went and got a PCR test on Day 1, which triggered T&T and then just did the LF to see how it progressed.

One thing I didn’t say was that although I tested positive the only symptoms I have had are a sore head.

90 days was PCR tests I don’t think it was ever LFTs.

Difference between ambulance trusts then Drac, as p20 was told this for LFTs back when we had covid.

One thing I didn’t say was that although I tested positive the only symptoms I have had are a sore head.

Same here. Tired and with a headache, but pretty much the "I have three small kids and it is winter" symptoms I've had for the past decade or so!

I don't know whether that's down to Omicron being less horrible, or down to three vaccination jabs, or a combination of both.

Difference between ambulance trusts then Drac, as p20 was told this for LFTs back when we had covid.

Yeah I was trying to recall, as I tested positive earlier but still not sure. I have the old guidelines at work but obviously I won’t be there for at least a week.