More Lies From Matt Hancock

[teacake44]

For every (one) person they now test, they are counting it as two, one swob up the nose, and one too the back of the mouth =two tests, this is so they can say they have reached the 200.000 tests per day, what the hell is this government playing at? Should they continue to lie to the public in this way you will see breakdown in law and order sooner or later. So the US rioting started off with a murder, but the real issue is their government handling of the virus and the loss of thousands of jobs and a spineless Trump who's not got a clue, very much like Boris. The virus is winning with global breakdown of law and order. 81% of the public now say Cummings broke the rules so if Boris tries another lockdown it won't work, and that is when the problems will start in the UK.

[ToraToraTora]

sounds like desperation to me.

[teacake44]

TTT knows exactly what I and others on here are saying, but just arguing the toss for the sake of it. But on the other hand, if TTT really doesn't see what the government are doing with the testing figures, then any amount of discussion of this thread is really like flogging a dead horse.

[diddlydo]

Teacake - saying anything that is even vaguely anti-Tory or left of ultra-right wing Fascist to TTT is a waste of time.

[gulliver1]

T/c 16.50,
Think the person you are reffering to is very very tunnel visioned

[retrocop]

I think at least three on here are entitled to have an extra test.
https://ibb.co/QrYPWVJ

[Ellipsis]

> sounds like desperation to me

What? Artificially inflating the figures, or pointing it out?

[ToraToraTora]

no, elipsis believing it's a deception when it has been said on the TV screen every day for 10 weeks. Under the testing figures it always says, words to the effect, that some people are tested more than once.

[Peter Pedant]

// That doesn't make sense. If they're using two swabs on one person, they may as well use two swabs on two people and get the result they aim for. Do you have a link to this?//

no it makes sense - one swab may be +ve because it is present in the nose and one -ve because the pharynx is free.
( and that would be positive)

Bit naughty
in medical reporting/research ( BMJ and all that) 16 tests on four patients is a case series of ...... four.

[gness]

Is that more than once at the same time, TTT.....or more than once by having a second test at a later date?

[ToraToraTora]

no idea it just says it on the screen every day. Though I think it means that it's for the day they are reporting.

[ummmm]

I got tested and had no symptoms. I went to hospital with something completely unrelated and was tested before taken to a ward. Covid and a MRSA test. I was tested again 7 days later.

[gness]

Ah well if you've no idea and haven't researched to find out it's no good those of us who have explained it going any further...as the tee shirt says.....I can explain it for you....but I can't understand it for you.

[gness]

Two tests or four, Ummmm?

[ToraToraTora]

gness: I dont really care all I know is that "deceptions/lies" are not usually contradicted on the TV every day for 10 weeks by the perps. The OP talked about lies, no one has shown me one yet. Someone else qualified that as deceptions but how can it be a deception when it says it every day on prime time TV?. Try reading what people actually write me old china.

[gness]

So you're hearing on the TV every day that one person having a nose and throat swab at the same time is counted as two tests? Someone is actually saying that every day?

[ToraToraTora]

It is written on the screen, under the figures each day under "number of tests".

[naomi24]

This might help.

//The number of tests performed is not the same as the number of people tested - on 22 May there were 140,497 tests but 80,297 people tested.

The reasons for the gap include:
◾some people have to be retested because their test was void
◾to check whether someone who had previously tested positive was now negative
◾to double check a negative test if someone still appeared to be infected.

Also counted in the tests, but not the people tested, are figures used by the Office for National Statistics to estimate the level of infection within the population as a whole. While this is important, it's not about diagnosing individuals.//

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51943612

[ummmm]

Nose and throat for Covid and nose and groin for MRSA.

I assumed as they had stickers with my name and NS number the Covid would class as one test in two tubes.

[ToraToraTora]

It's all well known as naomi says above so can someone show me the lies and/or deception or is this yet another 100+ thread from the political point scorers with no actual substance.

[sunny-dave]

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