Just Can’t Believe It - Youngsmow Has Tested Positive For Covid For 3Rd Time !

[Smowball]

He has had COVID twice before, first time was I’ll. 2nd time just felt slightly rough. Woke up feeling rough today - did a test at home and it’s positive, he’s going to have a peak flow test at 1pm to confirm it/deny it.
Is it possible to catch it THREE times after having all three jabs??

[Peter Pedant]

very unlikely in a teenager - hospital
the danger is they infect over 70s and they DDDDIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!

[LadyCG]

You can test positive up to three months after catching it.

[Smowball]

Youngsmow is 22 and regularly tested for work, but even he’s surprised at a negative test on fri and a positive one on Monday. Either way he’s been told that the one he’s just gone and had done at a test centre at 1pm is the result that is going to count.

[Barsel]

Smow I hope your boy will be alright, but I really don't trust those Covid tests unless they are done by someone professional.

[Peter Pedant]

sozza - chazza to:

no kissy kissy under the mizzy, sissy!

the nice bit about AB is no one reads my posts ( xc to write foo what dat den x 100) - Barsel - LFTs have been shown to be as accurate after 5.

and if he has had a negative that has returned positive, then it is a new infection

[pixie374]

Sounds fair, smow, that's why they do them twice a week. My daughter had negative at work, and positive 3 days later, confirmed by PCR.
However, she only had to isolate for 10 days (from a nursing unit), I did ask her whether she would need a negative test before she returned, but she said they won't retest her again for 90 days.
Anyway, there were no further cases, so 10 days must be enough.

[Peter Pedant]

It is positive for that long because bits of the virus hang around for that long
not living _ live virus causes / transmits infection- a bit on the internet on this but the defn seems simple enough

but pos-neg-pos striked me as difft to pos pos pos

( cue 100 X what all dat den etc )

[pixie374]

Pp, I'm sure we all get wot dat is den... although, also depends on the accuracy of the tests?