Where Are People Catching Covid-19 From?

[AuntPollyGrey]

The UK has now been in lockdown nearly five weeks, longer than it takes an individual to catch CV-19 and show signs, therefore the hundreds of new cases admitted yesterday into hospital and the 813 people who died in hospital yesterday must have caught the virus after the lockdown -or did they? Where are people catching the virus? In supermarkets? From delivered shopping? Post? Why is the Government not researching where people are catching the virus from now we are in lockdown.?

[Zacs-Master]

Unless it wasn’t Covid19 which you had.

[jim360]

// There’s also a growing body of thought that you do not have immunity once you’ve had it.//

Yes, this is concerning and then some. I hope it's a misinterpretation of "false negatives", but I'm sure that possibility will have been considered.

[Zacs-Master]

I think what they said at the beginning, pixie, was that they didn’t know whether people could be reinfected (at that stage they couldn’t know due to timescales/ knowledge of the virus). They’re now saying that they think reinfection is much more likely.

[jim360]

// Though Jim said unlikely.//

Yes, I did. I understood at the time that there was maybe one case that saw someone appear to have the disease a second time, which is far more likely to have arisen because of a false negative.

It's worth stating that, as far as I can tell, even now the picture is that there's not enough evidence to confirm immunity, rather than evidence against it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52425825

[pixie374]

I thought that was the first fear, zacs... that numbers had seemed to be reinforced after recovering?

[pixie374]

Reinfected...

[ichkeria]

Yes because at what point do you prove something negative?

[AuntPollyGrey]

//Unless it wasn’t Covid19 which you had. //

I'm not sure of the numbers of false positives on Covid-19 tests. I.ve read that some tests can show positive for all Corona viruses, which would include the seasonal flu -but I've had the flu shot as I do every year. I was very ill with most of the symptoms except my cough was not that bad, and I tested positive. I also had and still have a rash, which apparently can happen. I was told by a consultant that the fact I am on anti-TNF medication probably stopped the virus from getting a hold in my lungs -I'm afraid you will have to look that up yourself, as I don't want to make this thread 'all about me'. HTH

[dannyk13]

Ich //Yes because at what point do you prove something negative?//
Never, you cannot prove a negative.

[Zacs-Master]

Pixie, he’s it was a fear. It’s now thought to be a distinct possibility.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes not he’s.

[Barsel]

What is the difference between Covid-19 and a bad bout of the flu? I've heard people say they know someone who has got it, but they haven't been seen by a doctor and they haven't been to hospital.

[pixie374]

Zacs, it was claimed in BBC news, before it ever got to this country, that several had been tested twice with it. I think the possibility has always been known, and we don't know enough to overrule it yet.

[jim360]

I wouldn't have thought that the seasonal flu would show up in a CoronaVirus test as they are different viruses, although I'd be happy to be corrected on this.

[Zacs-Master]

‘ it was claimed in BBC news, before it ever got to this country, that several had been tested twice with it.’

You’d have to provide a link about that, pixie.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Barsel, This is a good point, this is why there should be testing for all people with 'symptoms'. Home testing kits should be available to everyone who reports possible Covid-19 symptoms to their GP.

[pixie374]

I don't have a link, I saw it on the news. Jim will confirm I said that all along.

[AuntPollyGrey]

I think it would depend on the robustness of your immune system as to the possibility of contracting the virus twice. If one did then surely the symptoms would not be as severe, but of course, you would be able to infect others, so a 'green light' for those who have had the virus might be a bit premature at his point.

[Barsel]

APG the last person I heard of that thought she had it phoned 111 and a doctor phoned her back, asked a few questions and said it's possible she has it and she should self isolate, but she is still sharing a bed with her husband! Surely she shouldn't be doing that if there is a possibility she may have it?